From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol? Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:24:29 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <8739r3slfm.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <847d35ff-14aa-44fc-9936-0130d97fe26d@z22g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291894574 15647 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 11:36:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:36:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 12:36:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQeml-0005bV-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:36:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQemZ-0002tw-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:35:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1289766269 2195 143.93.54.11 (14 Nov 2010 20:24:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:24:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kBOaXWugUmyPnD33Oc1qUrnApXs= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-123-219.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182427 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76992 Archived-At: "Felix E. Klee" writes: > In a text file, I want to reformat a block as follows. Its a chat > protocol with various lines longer than the value of `fill-column'. > > From: > > [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla > > Into: > > [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla > > Or: > > [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla > [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla > > Any simple solution? Try this, i.e. evaluate it in the chat buffer. (progn (mapc 'make-local-variable '(paragraph-start paragraph-separate)) (setq paragraph-start "\\[" paragraph-separate "$" fill-prefix (make-string (length "[11.11.2010 17:05:25] ") ?\s)) (fill-region (point-min) (point-max))) -ap