I wrote up a small addition to the unfill package, which is very convenient for switching hard newlines out in favor of tools like visual-line-mode and adaptive-wrap.
The command unfilled every list and paragraph in the entire buffer. PR is here: https://github.com/purcell/unfill/pull/11#pullrequestreview-1812645481 Steve wants to consider it for the org package itself. Questions from me: 1. will this be accepted? 2. where would it go? 3. because org is more general than unfill, I would instead name the command org-fill-buffer and we can recommend that users run in a hook: (setq-local fill-column most-positive-fixnum). After that, every call to `org-fill-buffer` will just do what they mean, just like how `fill-paragraph` will respect fill-column. I'm going to use the combination of `org-unindent-buffer` and `org-fill-buffer` in my own personal org shortcuts, but such a command is probably too much based on my personal taste. I think I will be recommending this combination to users in an upcoming video: 1. visual-fill-column 2. visual-line-mode 3. adaptive-wrap 4. configuring an org mode hook for "unfill" behavior 5. combining unindent with (un)fill in order to clean up old cruddy hard-indented, hard-newline documents
