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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What do you use to remove Paragraph Returns from your Text?
Message-ID: <1694@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 12:16:36 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.1694
Posted: Fri Oct 30 12:16:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 16:49:29 EST
References: <2089@sputnik.COM>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: Try micro-Emacs

In article <2089@sputnik.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
>need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
>every line in a paragraph.

As a long-time Word victim I used to do a trio of search and replace
operations, first translating pairs of carriage-returns (CR) into a
hopefully unique string, then replacing all remaining CR's with a space,
then finally replacing the unique string with a CR to give me back my
paragraphs.  Had it down to a fine art, at least for small docs.

Now I use Emacs at both ends, Gnu on the UNIX machines and micro-Emacs
on the Mac, and remove the CR whichever end I remember I need to do it.
Micro-Emacs came over the net a few months ago (version 3.8).

Works for me.

Robert_S
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