From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns?
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:12:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8841ab9d-750c-48af-8cfa-567f55ac5a2f@31g2000prc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hrrm2v$gqa$1@panix2.panix.com
On May 5, 4:50 am, jes...@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) wrote:
> I imagine this is a common problem, so I don't know why I'm
> having so much trouble finding an answer.
>
> Suppose I have a text document that I've worked on in
> text-mode. It is filled using the usual fill tools, so it
> wraps at 72 characters, with a hard return after each line.
> Paragraphs are separated by an extra hard return; there's no
> other indentation.
>
> I now need to give this document to someone who wants to work
> on it in a word processor, who complains that there are hard
> returns after every line. What's the easy way to remove these?
>
> 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. Yes, I can regex
> replace all examples of return (not followed by another
> return) with a space, but I'd think there must be something
> more organic.
>
> What trick am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
there's unfill-region or something builtin in emacs i think since 22,
but isn't loaded by default... (or was it in )
anyway, there's code here:
• Suggestions on Emacs's Line-Cutting Commands
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_fill-paragraph.html
or, if you want a simple code, use this:
(defun remove-line-breaks ()
"Remove line endings in a paragraph."
(interactive)
(let ((fill-column (point-max)))
(fill-paragraph nil)))
from:
• Emacs Lisp Examples
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_examples.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 11:50 Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns? Jesse Sheidlower
2010-05-05 12:22 ` Marc Mientki
2010-05-05 13:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-05-05 13:12 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2010-05-05 17:29 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-05-06 17:53 ` jpkotta
2010-05-06 18:08 ` Ross A. Laird
2010-05-07 5:38 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-05-07 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-07 13:36 ` Jonathan Groll
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