Remove Line Breaks

In short Removing line breaks joins broken lines back into flowing text, which is the fix for the single most common paste problem there is: copying from a PDF or a plain-text email gives you a hard line break at the end of every visual line, so the text reflows into a ragged mess in any editor that wraps it itself. Joining them restores the paragraph. The option to keep paragraph breaks is what makes this usable on real documents rather than only on single paragraphs, because it treats a blank line as a real break and every other line ending as an artefact. Without it you get the whole document as one paragraph, which trades one problem for another. Two details worth knowing. Line endings differ by platform — Windows uses a carriage return and a line feed, Unix and macOS use a line feed alone — and a file moved between them can show stray characters; both are handled here. And a line that was broken mid-word with a hyphen needs the hyphen removed too, which the text cleaner handles.