From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: unfill/defill Date: 31 Mar 2003 10:41:00 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049100469 15626 80.91.224.249 (31 Mar 2003 08:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 10:47:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18zuxH-00043p-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:47:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zuv7-00043J-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:45:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1049100062 05 27965 BQIKE90GT1AU-L 030331 08:41:02 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-ID: Gn1fysZEZekQyjJ1gVqGDPZYaKSdNF9gpNiTzabO6h9gy8nQLEoqs5 X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111514 comp.emacs:78472 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8014 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8014 Chris 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 -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum