Extension Details

Unwrap Paragraph adds the ability to merge multiple lines of selected text into one.

This is useful for combining multiple lines of data into one, or reflowing a paragraph of text that has had manual line breaks applied such as something pasted from an old email. It also coalesces areas of white space into a single space. So, it's not just "Join Lines" but something more specific.

In the TextMate editor this command is called Unwrap Paragraph, which is why I've kept the same name.

Example

Before:

    What 
exactly does  
this   extension    
do with the
text?  🤔

After:

What exactly does this extension do with the text? 🤔

Source code, before:

{
    0x050,
    0x104,
    0x202,
    0x050,
    0x451,
    0x104,
    0x505,
    0x088,
    0x272,
    0x104,
    0x050
}

Source code, after:

{ 0x050, 0x104, 0x202, 0x050, 0x451, 0x104, 0x505, 0x088, 0x272, 0x104, 0x050 }

Usage

To run Unwrap Paragraph:

• Select the Editor → Unwrap Paragraph menu item; or
• Open the command palette and type Unwrap Paragraph

The command will run on either:

1. the selected text
2. the text surrounding the cursor

Version 2.0.0

Add: operate on text surrounding cursor
Add: unwrap multiple paragraphs at once in selected text

Version 1.0.4

Change: clarify usage requires text to be selected

Version 1.0.3

Change: larger icon symbol

Version 1.0.x

Change: README

Version 1.0

Initial release