Re: [O] org-forward-paragraph doesn't work programatically (called from Lisp)

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Gerald Wildgruber <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to unfill/unwrap Org mode files because I switched from 
> auto-fill-mode to visual-line/visual-fill-column mode.
>
> I'd like to harmonize = unfill my already existing (filled) Org mode files. I 
> took the function in
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnfillParagraph)
>
> and tried the following (from within an emacs lisp buffer):
>
> (let ((fill-column most-positive-fixnum))
>   (dolist (f (directory-files-recursively
>               "~/directory/with/org/files/" (rx (or ".org" ".outl") eos)))
>     (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect f)
>       (while (not (eobp))
>         (fill-paragraph)
>         (org-forward-paragraph))
>       (save-buffer))))
>
> I thought this would iterate over all paragraphs (or org-wise equivalent 
> structures) until end of file is reached and unfill each one of them.
>
> But it doesn't work. The iteration doesn't happen, it somehow doesn't move 
> forward. It works though, if called interactively in an Org mode file.
>
> Why is that, how can I use org-forward-paragraph programmatically?

I cannot reproduce your problem. What Org version are you using?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou