initial commit, from http://k0s.org/portfolio/ideas/textshaper.py , see also http://k0s.org/portfolio/ideas/cleanuptext.py So you have a block of text ... What do you want to do with it?!? == Desired Functionality == == Previous work == /corpus of past programs -> consolidate/ - onelineit - quoting - dequoting (including e.g. +/-, diff-ish shit) - removing timestamps - removing/adding irc quote tags Interface: - library code - (n)curses - javascript/REST Consider the pattern: * things that add and/or remove a thing * things that alter spacing == Reference == Previous k0s.ware (big and small): - http://k0s.org/hg/config/rev/5e0b4ec36013 Highly related (~> identity): http://k0s.org/portfolio/ideas/cleanuptext.py Ubuntu packages: - par (paragraph reformatter)