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copying enriched text with soft breaks as space

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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.

Regards,
Mike Sm.

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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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