Re: the «inverse» function of join-lines

[Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

> I am not sure that the term inverse is here very appropriate, but I
> can't come with another term.

> Here is the problem. Suppose you have text like this

>              this is important blabla
>          but we also want

> So I want to obtain

>              this is important blabla but we also want

> The easiest way of doing it, is to put the cursor on b of but and run
> joint-line (which is an alias for delete-indentation)

> However most of the time my cursor is on a in blabla, if I then run
> kill-line I obtain

>              this is important blabla          but we also want

> And I need to run delete-horizontal-space.

> If I define
> (defun my-join-line-from-above ()
>   (interactive)
>   (save-excursion
>     (kill-line nil)
>     (delete-horizontal-space nil)))

> And use it I end up
>              this is important blablabut we also want

> So I wonder is there a function that does what I want, and is a bit more
> sophisticated then what I cooked up?

My work flow usually assumes that "related" text lines form
a paragraph.  Thus, I use fill-paragraph (M-q) to (re-)for-
mat those, normalizing whitespace along the way.

Tim