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Re: copying enriched text with soft breaks as space

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Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Is there any built in way in GNU emacs or an existing extension to allow
> one to copy lines of text from a buffer that is in enriched text mode so
> that the soft newlines get copied to the X primary selection or
> clipboard as spaces?
>
> When editing text locally, before pasting it into a web form, I find it
> convenient to use autofill in emacs. But when it comes time to paste
> what I've written to the web form I usually want to remove the newlines
> within paragraphs to allow the page's scripting to take over the
> filling. I'd hoped that using enriched text mode and only using its soft
> newline feature would provide a more automatic way to achieve what I
> want than manually joining lines before copying. Maybe it would be
> simple to program it, but I wanted to check if something already exists
> first.

Hi,

It seems that the following could work for your need:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun +remove-returns (text)
  (mapcar (lambda (x) (subst-char-in-string ?\n ?\s x)) text))

(advice-add 'gui-select-text :filter-args #'+remove-returns)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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copying enriched text with soft breaks as space Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> - 2025-03-21 12:00 -0400
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