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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="gedit-plugins-join-split-lines">
  <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>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

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

  <title>Join&#47;Split lines</title>

  <p>The <app>Join&#47;Split Lines</app> plugin can join shorter lines into one 
  longer line, or can split a long line into multiple shorter lines.</p>
  
  <p>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>.</p>

  <steps>
    <title>To join multiple lines into one longer line:</title>
    <item><p>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>.</p>
    </item>
    <item><p>Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>J</key></keyseq>.</p>
    <p>The lines that you selected will be joined into one longer line.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <steps>
    <title>To split one line into multiple lines:</title>
    <item><p>Select the line that you want to split by placing your cursor 
    anywhere on that line.</p></item>
    <item><p>Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key><key>J</key></keyseq>.
    </p>
    <p>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.</p></item>
  </steps>

</page>
