Re: Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns?

[jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com>]

On May 5, 12:29 pm, Uday S Reddy <U.S.Re...@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> jes...@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

I used to use that trick too, but then I started using filladapt.  It
acts like it doesn't know about fill-column (and glancing at the code
it seems to modify it on the fly in some cases).  I like filladapt
more than unfilling and it never bothered me enough to fix it.