Re: change soft to hard lines and back

[jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo)]

Hi, Uwe.

Uwe Brauer writes:

> For email I start to use messages-are-flowing.el (for example in 
> this message) which insert and display hardlines. (This is 
> useful when sending message to devices with small screens since 
> then the line ending is better displayed). 
> 
> However sometimes it is a bit too much. So I still have a 
> function which replaces softline by hardlines, namely [...] 
> 
> But unfortunately this did not work out. I tried to google for 
> the put-text-property function but did not find anything useful. 
> 
> Somebody has an idea how to do that, replace hardlines again by 
> softlines?

Probably this would work:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (defun soften-hardlines ()
    (interactive)
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (mail-text)
      (while (search-forward hard-newline nil t)
        (replace-match "\n"))))
#+END_SRC

Best,
-- 
Jorge.