alt-q whole buffer

alt-q whole buffer

[Francesco Scaglioni]

Hi,

I have a text file of 213K that is not wordwrapped in that every
paragraph fills the entire width of the emacs window.  Is there some
way to avoid having to M-q every paragraph?  I tried selecting whole
buffer then M-q but that only affected last paragraph.  It doesn't
seem to contain any definable end of line markers that I can search
and replace.

TIA

Francesco

Re: alt-q whole buffer

[D. Goel]

> Hi,
> 
> I have a text file of 213K that is not wordwrapped in that every
> paragraph fills the entire width of the emacs window.  Is there some
> way to avoid having to M-q every paragraph?  I tried selecting whole
> buffer then M-q but that only affected last paragraph.  It doesn't
> seem to contain any definable end of line markers that I can search
> and replace.

C-x h  (to mark whole buffeR)

M-x fill-region 


:) 


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Re: alt-q whole buffer

[Brendan Halpin]

Francesco Scaglioni <fgs@epulse.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a text file of 213K that is not wordwrapped in that every
> paragraph fills the entire width of the emacs window.  Is there some
> way to avoid having to M-q every paragraph?  I tried selecting whole
> buffer then M-q but that only affected last paragraph.  It doesn't
> seem to contain any definable end of line markers that I can search
> and replace.

Go to the start and evaluate the following:

(while (not (eobp)) 
        (fill-paragraph nil)
        (forward-paragraph))

Brendan
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