I, well, er, have done this. It's only a few keystrokes more than doing a fill.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:42 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > You could probably set an embarrassingly long line length, and reformat the > paragraph too. > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 21:20 Johnathan Mantey <mante...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Rich, > > > > That key sequence runs 'delete-indentation' which, per the command > > documentation: > > > > > > *Join this line to previous and fix up whitespace at join.If there is a > > fill prefix, delete it from the beginning of thisline.* > > > > It is not necessary to be at the end of the line. > > > > Johnathan > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 2:21 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I've asked for emacs help here a number of times. This time I share a > >> solution I found (deep in a StackExchange thread) that's very useful for > >> me > >> and, perhap, for other emacs users: unfilling a paragraph. > >> > >> Text downloaded from a web site (and other sources) may come as a single > >> line per paragraph. When we want to reformat that text into lines no > >> longer > >> than a specified number of characters we use M-q (fill paragraph). > >> > >> The reverse process is needed when we want to format paragaphs with > >> newlines > >> for use on a web site. Turns out there's an unfill command: M-^. > >> > >> Place the cursor (the point) at the end of the paragraph's last line and > >> keep entering M-^. A simple macro does wonders for a long text file. > >> > >> Hope this helps someone, sometime. > >> > >> Rich > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
