Tim here. The easiest way I've found is to use xsel or xclip to dump your clipboard contents and reformat with the "fmt" command, giving a ridiculously large rewrap width: $ xsel -ob | fmt -w 99999 | xsel -ib If you're using the selection buffer (pasted with middle-mouse) rather than the system clipboard (copied with control+C, pasted with control+V), you can remove the "b" from both xsel invocations $ xsel -o | fmt -w 99999 | xsel -i I find xsel easier to use, but if you have xclip installed, the invocation is similar $ xclip -o -selection clipboard | fmt -w 99999 | xclip -i -selection clipboard or for the selection buffer: $ xclip -o | fmt -w 99999 | xclip -i If you have the content in a file, you can use that as the source instead of the system clipboard: $ fmt -w 99999 file.txt | xsel -ib Hope this gives you some solutions, -Tim On November 3, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Okay, so this isn't really about accessibility so much as a fringe > case where what I do for accessibility causes problems for the > sighted. > > I do all of my writing in the nano text editor in a text-only > environment and favor hardwarpped plain text files both for my own > work and for reformatting stuff I download for offline reading. > > If I want to post something I wrote online, it usually means > switching to a graphical session, opening the text file in Firefox, > and then copying the hardwrapped text into a text box, and > generally, the text box and the page produced after submitting the > form will have softwrapping. > > Generally, this isn't a big deal as long as the resulting page is > displayed on something with at least 80 characters of width, but it > can cause choppy, uneven lines on displays that are narrower than 80 > characters, such as a phone screen in portrait mode. > > Anyone know a workaround for this? I'm thinking the ideal solution > would be a modified copy/cut command that would ignore the single > linebreaks nano's justify command adds to hardwrap text, but not the > double line breaks between paragraphs, but I don't know if there > exists a Firefox extension/about:config option or an Orca function > to do this. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list