History of 2015-11-14 A simple unfilling function

2015-11-14
07:20 UTC Revision 1 . . . . Marcin BorkowskiWhile the concept of filling text (i.e., putting hard newlines so that no line is longer than some limit) is well-known and very useful, the question about how to unfill some text (i.e., change all hard newlines to spaces) comes up again and again. The internet is full of solutions to that, but I never bothered to look into any of these – if I had a need to unfill a paragraph, I just used to set-fill-column to, say, ten thounsand and filled the paragraph. It was never a common thing for me to do, so I didn’t feel the need to optimize it. Until recently...