R help - Mar 2010 - emacs: reformat \items paragraph in .Rd

(emacs newb here)

After having made some changes in an \items paragraph of \arguments
the lines are no longer nicely wrapped. I was looking for a command to
reindent/rewrap/reformat the whole \items paragraph but couldn't find
anything.

The only way, I found, was to go to the end of the first line, do
'c-j'  (or RET) which wraps *this* line nicely, but now there is a
hard line-break to the next line. So I go back with 'c-p', delete the
gap to the next line with 'c-k' and some 'c-d' s. Then got to
the end
of this line and start again with 'c-j', ...

There certainly must be some easier way to reformat a paragraph?
(I tried 'm-c-q' (not defined) and 'm-c-\' (but was not able to
input
the backslash); I'm on GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).

Thanks for your help!

Hans-Peter

Hans-Peter Suter wrote:
> (emacs newb here)
> 
> After having made some changes in an \items paragraph of \arguments
> the lines are no longer nicely wrapped. I was looking for a command to
> reindent/rewrap/reformat the whole \items paragraph but couldn't find
> anything.
> 
> The only way, I found, was to go to the end of the first line, do
> 'c-j'  (or RET) which wraps *this* line nicely, but now there is a
> hard line-break to the next line. So I go back with 'c-p', delete
the
> gap to the next line with 'c-k' and some 'c-d' s. Then got
to the end
> of this line and start again with 'c-j', ...
> 
> There certainly must be some easier way to reformat a paragraph?
> (I tried 'm-c-q' (not defined) and 'm-c-\' (but was not
able to input
> the backslash); I'm on GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Hans-Peter

Esc-q or M-q will wrap a whole paragraph. The only problem is that you 
need to make sure the paragraph you want to wrap is separated from other 
paragraphs by blank lines, i.e. it must be clear it is a paragraph.

David Scott

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Many thanks!  The missing empty line was the problem, and M-q works great.

Hans-Peter
> Esc-q or M-q will wrap a whole paragraph. The only problem is that you need
> to make sure the paragraph you want to wrap is separated from other