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
