How to insert blank line in between every line

Sean Shaffer

Is there a way to easily “double-space” my document by inserting a blank line in between every line I have selected or all lines in the document? I don’t see a one-click solution for this under Edit->Line Operations

andrecool-68

@Sean-Shaffer
Option Find and Replace
Find: $
Replace: \n
This will add an empty line to each line.

Alan Kilborn

@andrecool-68

Hmmmmmm. Well, that might be bad if the OP is using anything other than Unix/Linux line endings. Plus, I wouldn’t think that the user would want to turn blank lines into a bigger section of blank lines.

I’d try:

Find: ^.+(\R)
Replace: $0\1
Search mode: Regular expression

Alan Kilborn

To be better, go with:

Find: (?-s)^.+(\R)

(…since we don’t know the user’s setting of the . matches newline checkbox. The above change makes that checkbox’s setting irrelevant.)

Alan Kilborn

Alternatively, a well-placed ? in the original would have made it okay, even without the (?-s) and without caring about the checkbox setting:

Find: ^.+?(\R)

And no, Peter, repeated postings by me here is not a veiled attempt for more upvotes. :)

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn

hmm - what about
find: \R
replace: $0$0
?
;-)

Alan Kilborn

@Ekopalypse

For me, that puts too much “blankness” in certain spots (say, between “paragraphs”). But since we have no idea really what the OP wants for this circumstance…

Sean Shaffer

I’m editing a list of trackers for torrenting. For better readability, I want each line to be spaced apart. For example,

http://redacted1/announce
http://redacted2/announce
http://redacted3/announce

would become:

http://redacted1/announce

http://redacted2/announce

http://redacted3/announce

moderator redacted urls and added code block; we don’t want this topic to become a honeypot for torrent-advertising spam

Sean Shaffer

Alan Kilborn provided the correct Find/Replace solution. Thank you!

A3 W2

@Alan-Kilborn That worked for me, Thanks.
Had same problem with separating a list of trackers as OP.

A3 W2

@Sean-Shaffer It’s not just for readability. It simply doesn’t work other way. I mean when you copy-paste a list of trackers - it has to be line separated like that, otherwise it just doesn’t work (talking uTorrent here).
So when i update the list in Notepad++ i hit “remove duplicates” and that also removes empty lines between addresses. So then i need to put them back, which this post helped me do. Nice, thanks everybody.

A3 W2

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to insert blank line in between every line:

Find: (?-s)^.+(\R)

typing this in Find does nothing and some small windows opens :) trying to use Replace messes up whole document, leaving only 2 lines there.
1st suggestion work fine, but that second idk, i wasn’t able to make it work.

Slobodan Krstić

Re: How to insert blank line in between every line
Using column selection (alt - left mouse btn)

press enter

Maybe the fastest way :))

Chris Stott

This worked for me on tracker list

Find: \n
replace: \n\n
search mode: extended

if you replace with \n\n\n it adds 2 lines inbetween

before:

after:

hope this helps

moderator deleted before/after data; don’t want this to become a honeypot for tracker url spamming

Alan Kilborn

@Chris-Stott said in How to insert blank line in between every line:

Find: \n
replace: \n\n
search mode: extended

This is rather dangerous.
Nice way to corrupt your files, possibly unknowingly, if your files are Windows and not Linux.

A better way might be:
Find: (\R)
Replace: $1$1
Search mode: Regular expression
I suppose this is about the same as @Ekopalypse 's post earlier, Jul 17, 2019, 11:01 AM.

Ekopalypse

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to insert blank line in between every line:

I suppose this is about the same as @Ekopalypse 's post earlie

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