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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-additional-plugins"/>

    <revision version="3.8" date="2013-02-24" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Jim Campbell</name>

      <email its:translate="no">jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <desc>Join several lines of text or split long lines.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Join/Split Lines</title>

  
The <app>Join/Split Lines</app> plugin can join shorter lines into one

  longer line, or can split a long line into multiple shorter lines.

  
To enable this plugin, select <guiseq><gui style="menu">gedit</gui>

  <gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui><gui>Plugins</gui>

  <gui>Join/Split Lines</gui></guiseq>.

  <steps>

    <title>To join multiple lines into one longer line:</title>

    <item>

      
Select the lines that you want to join. To do this, you can use the

      mouse, or you can press <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Up Arrow</key>

      </keyseq> or <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Down Arrow</key></keyseq>.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>J</key></keyseq>.

      
The lines that you selected will be joined into one longer line.

    </item>

  </steps>

  <steps>

    <title>To split one line into multiple lines:</title>

    <item>

      
Select the line that you want to split by placing your cursor anywhere

      on that line.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key>

      <key>J</key></keyseq>.

      
The line will be split into multiple lines. Spaces are used to

      determine where it is safe to split a line, and the length of each line

      will not exceed 80 characters.

    </item>

  </steps>

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