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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > >
