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Re: What's wrong with this seemingly simple function for unwrapping text
From: |
Endless Story |
Subject: |
Re: What's wrong with this seemingly simple function for unwrapping text? |
Date: |
13 Jan 2007 04:18:33 -0800 |
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G2/1.0 |
Thanks to all. Via a quick Google I also found good recipes for
unfilling paragraph, region, or paragraphs with region, all by Sean
Burke at
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/emacs/sburke_dot_emacs.config
B. T. Raven wrote:
> "Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com> wrote in message
> 1168599607.154137.166990@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1168599607.154137.166990@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > I like autofill mode, but it has one disadvantage: the filled lines
> > require unfilling if I want to copy the text over into a Word
> > processor, e.g. Word or OpenOffice. This can be rather tedious, so I
> > thought I would write a simple function and put it in my .init file to
> > make everything easy:
> >
> > (defun unwrap-text ()
> > (interactive)
> > (setq fill-column 5000)
> > (mark-whole-buffer)
> > (fill-region)
> > (setq fill-column '70)
> > )
> >
> > When the function gets to fill-region, it bombs out, complaining about
> > 'wrong number of variables.' So my questions are:
> >
> > 1) For any lisp experts, what's going wrong here?
> > 2) Is there some built-in way for doing what I want to do?
> >
>
> Tassilo already fixed your problem but here are two more, in case you
> might not always want to affect the whole buffer:
>
> (defun unfill-paragraph () "Do the opposite of fill-paragraph; stuff all
> lines in the current paragraph into a single long line."
> (interactive)
> (let ((fill-column 90002000))
> (fill-paragraph nil)))
>
> (defun unfill-region () "Do the opposite of fill-region; stuff all
> paragraphs in the current region into long lines."
> (interactive)
> (let ((fill-column 90002000))
> (fill-region (point) (mark))))
>
> Ed