[Geany] Making HTML from plain text; joining lines

[Vlastimil Ott]

Hi guys,

I'm editing some plain text. It's a article and it will be published on web in 
HTML. How could I add paired tags to a paragraph? The only way I know is 

1. go to paragraph begin, write <p>
2. delete </p> (autoclosing)
3. go to paragraph end
4. write (or copy) </p>

I've used Quanta with user-defined hotkeys for years. They helped a lot - Ctrl-; 
for applying <p></p> to a selection, Ctrl-1 for pasting <h1></h1> and so on.

How to do this with Geany?

Second:

How to join lines with hard breaks (in fact paragraphs)?

Thank you for a great editor,

regards,

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Vlastimil Ott
www.e-ott.info