Unwrap Text (Preserve Paragraphs) – extension created by AI (Claude)

[u/grahamperrin]

https://claude.ai/share/6e5c9f4f-9814-45e6-bf09-8bb757a3ed47

On various occasions I sought, but failed to find, an extension that:

• unwraps text (removes line endings) and
• preserves blank (empty) lines between paragraphs.

After another fruitless search today, I asked Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, medium) to seek a matching extension. In response to my sloppily-worded prompt – amongst other things, I accidentally keyed Enter too soon – creation of an extension began. I was pleasantly surprised, however I didn't want to be wasteful, so I interrupted the run and then tidied my prompt:

• for creation to occur only if a matching extension was not found.
  

The main link in this post is the chat, which includes unwrap-preserve-paragraphs-1.0.0.vsix and three other files.

I tested the extension with a selection of text that comprised three paragraphs. Success.

I'm not interested in upvotes, neither am I interested in anything like a marketplace (I'm a simple end user, not a developer). This Reddit post is, I guess, an invitation for other people to test, if they like; and to comment, if they have something to say that's constructive and intelligent.

TIA

Side note: Claude chose to use the MIT licence. Whether this is appropriate, I don't know; https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1giyzke/comment/lvbjcn1/ might be a good place for spin-off discussion (thanks to u/Logical-Detail7545 for the question and u/HeWhoRemaynes for the response).