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Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol?
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Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol? |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:36:00 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (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?
Try this, i.e. evaluate it in the chat buffer.
(progn
(mapc 'make-local-variable '(paragraph-start paragraph-separate))
(setq paragraph-start "\\["
paragraph-separate "$"
fill-prefix (make-string (length "[11.11.2010 17:05:25] ")
?\s))
(fill-region (point-min) (point-max)))
-ap