From: Uday S Reddy <U.S.Reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:29:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utyqm45pq.fsf@cs.bham.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hrrm2v$gqa$1@panix2.panix.com
jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) writes:
> Going forward, I could work on such documents in
> longlines-mode. But it's not clear how to fix what I have. The
> trick mentioned in the Emacs wiki of resetting fill-column to
> a large number and then refilling the region doesn't work,
> because each paragraph is seen as one line, rather than the
> block of text set off by two newlines.
I use the trick mentioned in Emacs wiki all the time. I am not sure
why you say it doesn't work.
Make sure that you don't have longlines-mode turned on while you do
the unfilling.
Cheers,
Uday Reddy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 11:50 Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns? Jesse Sheidlower
2010-05-05 12:22 ` Marc Mientki
2010-05-05 13:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-05-05 13:12 ` Xah Lee
2010-05-05 17:29 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-05-06 17:53 ` jpkotta
2010-05-06 18:08 ` Ross A. Laird
2010-05-07 5:38 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-05-07 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-07 13:36 ` Jonathan Groll
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