From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alt-q whole buffer Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:46:10 +0000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042211723 30846 80.91.224.249 (10 Jan 2003 15:15:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18X0sI-00080f-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:15:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18X0Po-0007Rx-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:45:44 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!wivenhoe.staff8.ul.IE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie (136.201.147.134) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042209662 18202550 136.201.147.134 (16 [139789]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108798 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5328 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5328 Francesco Scaglioni writes: > Hi, > > I have a text file of 213K that is not wordwrapped in that every > paragraph fills the entire width of the emacs window. Is there some > way to avoid having to M-q every paragraph? I tried selecting whole > buffer then M-q but that only affected last paragraph. It doesn't > seem to contain any definable end of line markers that I can search > and replace. Go to the start and evaluate the following: (while (not (eobp)) (fill-paragraph nil) (forward-paragraph)) Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Deptartment of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-390476; Room F2-025 x 3147