From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Refilling paragraphs to remove hard returns? Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:29:53 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273155560 24105 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 14:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 14:19:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 16:19:18 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OA1v1-0000eN-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 16:19:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OA1ui-0004Wu-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 10:18:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1273080593 8501 147.188.194.56 (5 May 2010 17:29:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:29:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:G6UUGPk1yT+iFdumj3fJZp/d6rE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177957 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 May 2010 20:49:34 -0400 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:73494 Archived-At: jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) writes: > 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. I use the trick mentioned in Emacs wiki all the time. I am not sure why you say it doesn't work. Make sure that you don't have longlines-mode turned on while you do the unfilling. Cheers, Uday Reddy