Hi Rich, I use Emacs and most other types of editors as well. This is a great tip!
Thanks, Kevin Williams On Sun, Feb 12, 2023, at 1:24 PM, Rich Shepard 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 > > > > >
