From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Join Multiple Lines
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:50:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wh00xhs.fsf@informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1383.1180430912.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Ankur Jain" <jainankur@gmail.com> writes:
> How can I join multiple lines into one line using Emacs.
>
> I know the command "join-line" to join the current line with previous; how to do it
> for multiple lines?
>
> Can I execute it multiple times for a set of lines. If yes, please let me know how to
> do that?
You can do a search a replace on ^J.
M-x replace-string RET C-q C-j RET SPC RET
will put all the lines after the point on one big line.
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2007-05-29 9:50 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
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2007-05-31 4:51 ` Join Multiple Lines Ankur Jain
2007-05-31 4:55 ` Ankur Jain
2007-05-31 12:26 ` Hugo Schmitt
2007-05-29 6:45 Ankur Jain
2007-05-29 9:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-05-29 20:26 ` Eric Hanchrow
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