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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


  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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