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Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol? |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:35:59 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (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?
M-< M-x replace-regexp RET ^\([^]]\) RET C-u 24 SPC \1 RET
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