How to undo fill-paragraph in emacs?

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Published on 2010-03-18T16:27:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 16:31 UTC
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I have a text file that is pretty long. Any easy way to "undo" a M-q (fill-paragraph) on a file that was written and saved a while ago?

For example, I want to change this:

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa

To this:

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!! They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa

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