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
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