From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the =?iso-8859-1?Q?=ABinverse=BB?= function of join-lines Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:10:13 +0000 Organization: https://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87sf602uwq.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> References: <87zg08pe1q.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9798"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.3 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 12:11:12 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qvENU-0002JS-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:11:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvEMj-0006O9-4i; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvEMf-0006Nh-6k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from gavdos.tim-landscheidt.de ([2a01:4f8:1c0c:4bd6::1]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvEMd-0007wa-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from port-62-145-29-194.static.as20676.net ([62.145.29.194]:45346 helo=vagabond) by gavdos.tim-landscheidt.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1qvEMY-003I1M-2p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:10:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87zg08pe1q.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:25:53 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f8:1c0c:4bd6::1; envelope-from=tim@tim-landscheidt.de; helo=gavdos.tim-landscheidt.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145367 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer 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