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Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol?


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:35:59 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> In a text file, I want to reformat a block as follows. Its a chat
> protocol with various lines longer than the value of `fill-column'.
>
> From:
>
>   [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
> bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla
>
> Into:
>
>   [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>     bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla
>
> Or:
>
>   [11.11.2010 17:01:37] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>                         bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:04:21] bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>   [11.11.2010 17:05:25] bla bla bla
>
> Any simple solution?

M-< M-x replace-regexp RET ^\([^]]\) RET C-u 24 SPC \1 RET

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