From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Editing text in Emacs then pasting into something like Outlook
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:29:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1ABCB206F8@USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com> (raw)
I need commands like M-a (sentence-forward) to maximize my
productivity when writing large swaths of text, so use Emacs for it.
I learned M-a and M-e so long ago, that sometimes my fingers will hit
one of them before I realize I'm not in Emacs....
Has anyone written code to take a region or a file of plain ASCII text
written in Emacs using classical block style (with paragraphs wrapped
as in this e-mail) and transform it into something suitable for
pasting into MS Word or Outlook as raw text? (I manually unwrap using
M-^ and C-p interactively, starting at the end, backing up to the
beginning.)
This means two newlines before the second through Nth paragraph in my
case, because I usually use extra paragraph marks to make space before
the following paragraph. I'm only looking for code to "unwrap" the
text; for extra credit, actually shove it into the appropriate
cross-application "clipboard" buffer. (I copy the unwrapped region
using M-w now.)
I took a whack at rolling my own unwrap code a few years ago, but it
failed in a few cases. I will ask for advice on it here if there is
no better existing solution. Please let me know of existing solutions
to this problem. I happen to be running Emacs on Windows, but really
want a solution for all platforms, because I want this sort of thing
on UNIX periodically too.
Oh, one of the finer points here is dealing with sentences that end at
the end of a line. (I use the traditional Emacs default, so of
course, I consistently want two spaces between paragraphs.)
Thanks!
Mark Ludwig
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-30 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-30 14:29 Ludwig, Mark [this message]
2013-04-30 14:37 ` Editing text in Emacs then pasting into something like Outlook Teemu Likonen
2013-05-01 4:29 ` eqyiel
2013-05-01 15:51 ` Ludwig, Mark
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