From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Join Multiple Lines Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:26:59 -0700 Message-ID: <87lkf7z88c.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180471131 1989 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2007 20:38:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:38:51 +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 22:38:50 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 1Ht8Sw-0003wK-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:38:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8Sv-0005yF-Mh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8Sd-0005x3-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8Sa-0005tM-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8SY-0005sv-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ht8SX-0001q3-Lp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ht8SL-0003Qk-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 22:38:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GNCwuWwfkiIJfvYqkZx51N0poQs= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44536 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ankur" == Ankur Jain writes: Ankur> I know the command "join-line" to join the current line Ankur> with previous; how to do it for multiple lines? Another option is to set your fill column to a large value, for example M-1-0-0-0-0-0 C-x f Then mark the lines and do M-x fill-region -- Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit. A. O. Scott, in The New York Times