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How does one do the reverse of fill-region / fill-paragraph in emacs?
Try M-x unfill-region and M-x unfill-paragraph. Their documentation says that they are the respective inverses of those two commands.
Edit:
Forgot that this is not built in. You want package unfill ...
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fill-paragraph (`M-q`) for s-expressions?
Perhaps you're looking for indent-pp-sexp, which is bound to C-M-q by default in emacs lisp mode. With a prefix argument (e.g. C-u C-M-q) this will "pretty print" the sexp at point.
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How to have fill-paragraph/fill-region break the line after a period?
You have sentence-end-double-space set to its default value,
which is t. The relevant part of the docstring:
Documentation:
Non-nil means a single space does not end a sentence.
This is ...
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pasting from websites results in 1 long line..anyway to keep the paragraph format?
Just run fill-paragraph bound by default to M-q
Depending on where you are copying from, remember that the paragraph is one logical object, how it shows depends on the width of the browser on your ...
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How to prevent LaTeX verbatim environments to be subject to LaTeX-fill-region
Add your self-defined verbatim environment to LaTeX-indent-environment-list.
Your modified example would look like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\begin{document}
This text
just ...
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How does one do the reverse of fill-region / fill-paragraph in emacs?
spacemacs has a nice design regarding this in better defaults layer. from it's manual:
Fill or unfill paragraph: Pressing M-q for the first time fills current paragraph and pressing M-q for the ...
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How to fill a string programmatically like fill-region in elisp?
You can insert the string into a temporary buffer, fill the region, and read the contents of the buffer as a string:
(defun fill-string (s)
(with-temp-buffer
(emacs-lisp-mode)
(insert s)
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Want to Alt-Q on a long piece of text - but it has no spaces so it doesn't work
Go to the beginning of the line, start a keyboard macro, advance 80 chars (C-U 80 C-F), add a return, finish the macro and then repeat it as many times as needed.
See keyboard macros.
Cheers,
Peter....
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org-fill-paragraph in a list with checkboxes doesn't take into account the checkboxes
The key is to play with adaptive-fill-function which should return a fill-prefix, a string which prefix newlines of the filled item. It will work because the call chain is org-fill-paragraph > org-...
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Org-mode paragraph-start not respected
You are trying to use full stops . as bullets. Org mode recognises -, + as unordered list item characters at the beginning of the line. (Try pressing Shift and right arrow with cursor on a list item ...
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Prevent fill-paragraph from wrapping past horizontal rules
You can add the following lines to your init-file. Additionally to the default setting, they define lines consisting of at least two equal non-alphanumerical characters as paragraph start and ...
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Is it possible to tune `fill-paragraph` to balance the lines?
avoid typographic widows, i.e. a single word on a line.
If you just want to avoid single word lines, then see user option fill-nobreak-predicate and its standard option fill-single-word-nobreak-p ...
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`fill-paragraph` prevent breaking
I wanted dalanicolai to fix his answer but he didn't do it (see my first and my second comment).
So, I give here my own answer.
One surpresses filling if one finds the tag starter in a backward
search ...
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How to have fill-paragraph/fill-region break the line after a period?
I'm referring to Emacs Wiki to answer your question.
Paragraph Boundaries
By default, text-mode assumes that empty lines separate paragraphs. The boundaries of paragraphs are determined by two ...
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fill-paragraph marks file as changed, even if it didn't do anything
Note that this is fixed for newer Emacsen (v.26 upwards).
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Format help buffers to specific width
temp-buffer-show-hook should help. That's where help-mode-finish is called, for instance. It is used in with-help-window and with-temp-buffer-window, which are used to display Help windows.
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What is this M-q behaviour in Emacs 26.1 message mode
With the default settings M-q effectively calls function message-fill-paragraph in message-mode. message-fill-paragraph acts differently for the header part and the rest of the message. The fill ...
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fill-paragraph does not honor fill-column
Filling is a general facility which can depend on more than just the fill-column variable, however the first thing to test is simply that you're checking the fill-column value for the correct buffer --...
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Specify a block of text that should not be filled (leave it "verbatim")?
Polymode
Polymode might serve your purpose here. It supports editing documents that combine code in different languages. It does a lot more than just let you tweak autofilling, so it might be worth ...
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How does one do the reverse of fill-region / fill-paragraph in emacs?
I've been using this from the Emacs wiki:
(defun my-unfill-paragraph (&optional region)
"Make multi-line paragraph into a single line of text.
REGION unfills the region. See URL
`https://...
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How can I avoid fill-paragraph in org-mode?
While the answer by NickD does exactly what is asked, I'd recommend enabling visual-line-mode instead:
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
This also sets (setq truncate-lines nil), but in ...
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`fill-paragraph` prevent breaking
EDIT
This answer provides an incorrect solution (see @Tobias his comments and answer), but I leave it here as an example of a faulty solution, and for the explanation why (via Tobias his comments and ...
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How to detect if a paragraph has been filled?
Here is an ugly hack that works for me:
(defun fill-paragraph-p ()
(let ((hash (buffer-hash))
result)
(save-excursion
(fill-paragraph nil t)
(setq result (equal hash (buffer-...
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How to properly fill a whole Org buffer programmatically?
This seems to give the expected result for me:
(defun custom-org-fill ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(org-with-wide-buffer
(cl-loop for el in (reverse
(org-element-map (org-...
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org-fill-paragraph doesn't comply with org-list-allow-alphabetical
As @NickD pointed out and per the documentation:
This variable needs to be set before org.el is loaded. If you
need to make a change while Emacs is running, use the customize
interface or run the ...
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From one-line list to one element per line in python-mode
You can always write a function to do what you want and bind it to a key sequence. The following will deal with the vast majority of cases, but it will fail if a list element contains the string "...
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(Sudden) Weird behavior of M-q in auctex
Entries in LaTeX-indent-environment-list control the filling behavior in environments. If you want the standard filling AUCTeX applies to environments, remove entries for your appendices from it and ...
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How to prevent LaTeX verbatim environments to be subject to LaTeX-fill-region
In case you're using fancyvrb.sty to define your custom environment, you only need to hit C-c C-n and let AUCTeX parse your document. AUCTeX has a sophisticated style file for fancyvrb.sty which ...
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is there a fill paragraph with bullets combo command for emacs
Wrapping the paragraphs is simple: C-x h M-q (mark the whole buffer, fill paragraphs).
Adding the bullets is not a built-in capability in text-mode, but can be accomplished a few ways. You could ...
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Unfill `mu4e` message before sending
This works approximately:
(defun unfill-email-body ()
(let ((fill-column most-positive-fixnum)
(top ))
(mu4e-compose-goto-top)
(setq top (point))
(mu4e-compose-goto-bottom)
;; ...
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