From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: unfill/defill
Date: 31 Mar 2003 10:41:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u1dkrkrn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Xns934EE35B595F9chrislak@216.168.3.44
Chris <chrisl_ak@hotmail.com> writes:
> I sometimes need to take a few paragraphs (2-20) from a text file created
> in Emacs using auto-fill and put them into another application. All
> paragraphs are separated by a blank line. What is the simplest way to
> "unfill" or "defill" these paragraphs so that each paragraph is one long
> line? Ideally I could highlight the whole region with the paragraphs I need
> and unfill them all at once, but retain a blank line between each one...
M-1000000 C-x f M-x fill-region RET
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-31 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-31 7:23 unfill/defill Chris
2003-03-31 8:41 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-03-31 13:11 ` unfill/defill Gareth Rees
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