The opposite of fill-paragraph in Emacs...

So, like many emacs users, I occasionally need to do the opposite of a specific command. Case in point, the M-q command which does the function fill-paragraph will take a line that is too long and justify it to 72 columns per row of text (as well as doing a bunch of other things like keeping lists justified properly and such).

How does one do the opposite? Well theres no unjustify-region command or unfill-paragraph command. However, Stefan Monnier has provided a quick unfill-paragraph command that you can place in your .emacs file:

;;; Stefan Monnier . It is the opposite of
;;; fill-paragraph. Takes a multi-line paragraph and makes
;;; it into a single line of text.
(defun unfill-paragraph ()
(interactive)
(let ((fill-column (point-max)))
(fill-paragraph nil)))