fill individual long lines

fill individual long lines

[Samuel Wales]

i want a command that will fill paragraphs that are long lines and
that have no blank lines between them.

for example, today, i received an email, intended as list items,
which, when copied from the webmail to emacs, resulted in soemthing
like this:

  line 1 hello ajs dnfkansd fklja sndlkfj anskdj nfalksjd nflaksjn
dfkajs ndfkjn asdkjf naksjd nfkajsnd fkja sndkfj naskdj nfakjsdn fkajs
ndkfjn askdjn faksjdnfkajsndfkjansdkfjnalksdjfn
  another line k naskjdfn alksj fndlkajsnd fkjans dklfjan sdklfjn
aksdjnf kaljsd nfkjasn dklfjn aksdjn fkajsdn fklaj nsdkfn aksdj
fnlkasjdnfffkdnfkajn sdkfjnaskdjfnkasjdnkfjan

and so on.  in other words, every line is too long, but if i just
filled with m-q, it would smush all list items into one long
paragraph.  each line is a list item.

what i want is for the result to be like:

  line 1 hello ajs dnfkansd fklja sndlkfj anskdj nfalksjd
  nflaksjn dfkajs ndfkjn asdkjf naksjd nfkajsnd fkja sndkfj
  naskdj nfakjsdn fkajs ndkfjn askdjn
  faksjdnfkajsndfkjansdkfjnalksdjfn

  another line k naskjdfn alksj fndlkajsnd fkjans dklfjan
  sdklfjn aksdjnf kaljsd nfkjasn dklfjn aksdjn fkajsdn fklaj
  nsdkfn aksdj fnlkasjdnfffkdnfkajn sdkfjnaskdjfnkasjdnkfjan

or even, for super duper fanciness, have each original line become an org list
item.  [not always needed, but the intent of this email was bullets .]

please copy me on any reply if possible as it is hard to find things
sent to me on this mailing list.  thank you.

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Re: fill individual long lines

[Mekeor Melire]

2024-02-13 16:03 samologist@gmail.com:

> i want a command that will fill paragraphs that are long lines and
> that have no blank lines between them.

Do you want us to write the code for you? Personally, I neither have
enough expertise nor time for that, I'm sorry.

> for example, today, i received an email, intended as list items,
> which, when copied from the webmail to emacs, resulted in soemthing
> like this:
>
>   line 1 hello ajs dnfkansd fklja sndlkfj anskdj nfalksjd nflaksjn
> dfkajs ndfkjn asdkjf naksjd nfkajsnd fkja sndkfj naskdj nfakjsdn fkajs
> ndkfjn askdjn faksjdnfkajsndfkjansdkfjnalksdjfn another line k
> naskjdfn alksj fndlkajsnd fkjans dklfjan sdklfjn aksdjnf kaljsd
> nfkjasn dklfjn aksdjn fkajsdn fklaj nsdkfn aksdj fnlkasjdnfffkdnfkajn
> sdkfjnaskdjfnkasjdnkfjan
>
> and so on. in other words, every line is too long, but if i just
> filled with m-q, it would smush all list items into one long
> paragraph. each line is a list item.
>
> what i want is for the result to be like:
>
>   line 1 hello ajs dnfkansd fklja sndlkfj anskdj nfalksjd
>   nflaksjn dfkajs ndfkjn asdkjf naksjd nfkajsnd fkja sndkfj
>   naskdj nfakjsdn fkajs ndkfjn askdjn
>   faksjdnfkajsndfkjansdkfjnalksdjfn
>
>   another line k naskjdfn alksj fndlkajsnd fkjans dklfjan
>   sdklfjn aksdjnf kaljsd nfkjasn dklfjn aksdjn fkajsdn fklaj
>   nsdkfn aksdj fnlkasjdnfffkdnfkajn sdkfjnaskdjfnkasjdnkfjan
>
> or even, for super duper fanciness, have each original line become an org list
> item.  [not always needed, but the intent of this email was bullets .]

You could write such a function with these components:

- replace "\n" with "\n\n"
- for each paragraph, call `org-toggle-item'
- for each org item, call `org-fill-paragraph'