From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Join Multiple Lines Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:50:39 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <871wh00xhs.fsf@informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180435242 16159 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2007 10:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 29 12:40:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hsz81-0001iz-Tv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 12:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hsz81-0002sR-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 06:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net o7YZ4Xs5RQj++OGeY8v1RwEdS7a6u5vhzkvCr7qxj52wGgfa9h Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OGVjN2UzYWYzNjk5NDdkYmNjNjJkNzQyNTMxMTdkMTMxYWM5YWVjOA== Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148933 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44524 Archived-At: "Ankur Jain" writes: > How can I join multiple lines into one line using Emacs. > > I know the command "join-line" to join the current line with previous; how to do it > for multiple lines? > > Can I execute it multiple times for a set of lines. If yes, please let me know how to > do that? You can do a search a replace on ^J. M-x replace-string RET C-q C-j RET SPC RET will put all the lines after the point on one big line. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed.