From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: change soft to hard lines and back Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:52:08 -0500 Message-ID: <876098kguv.fsf@yale.edu> References: <87mv2ljuer.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513295577 29024 195.159.176.226 (14 Dec 2017 23:52:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:52:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 00:52:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdJ5-0007Jp-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:52:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdJC-0006bo-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdIc-0006bi-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdIZ-0003wV-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54220 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdIY-0003u4-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:52:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ePdIP-00059g-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:52:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:o+GhxXkjtng0/z+s8mO2DfTNe4Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221077 Archived-At: 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.