My assumption was that one knows how many blank lines one wants…a hard number. Then one puts this number into the Run a Macro Multiple Times… input box when prompted.

Of course, if one just wants a “gob” of blank lines, then sure, just hold down the Enter key…

We sure do get a lot of vague questions on here, though, don’t we? :-)

I don’t understand, exactly, the necessity to create a macro ?!

Why not, either :

• Hold down the Enter key, the necessary time ?

• Create a pure blank line and hit on the Ctrl + D shortcut, several times ?

Cheers,

guy038

make a lot of blank lines by the app not by hand?

Yes, do the following:

• Macro (menu) -> Start Recording
• In a document tab, press the Enter key
• Macro (menu) -> Stop Recording
• Macro (menu) -> Run a Macro Multiple Times…

editor.appendText(s)

inserting 1,2,3,4,5,6,…1000, at the current cursor position.

Or with some help from mawk (3rd party free software and NppExec):
mawk “BEGIN { for (i = 1; i <= 1000; i++) {if (i==1000) {printf i} else {printf i’,'}} }” | clip
have 1,2,3,4,5,6,…1000 saved in the clipboard.

If you want them comma-separated instead

I would revise Peter’s Replace All action as follows:

Find what zone: \x20*\R
Search mode: Regular expression

The reason for the tweak to the Find what is that this Column editor commnd will pad on the right with blank characters if you do more than 10 lines. The Search mode addition is simply because Peter forgot to mention it. :-)

If it’s okay to be on separate lines, you’re done.

If you want them comma-separated instead, then select the rows, Search > Replace (Ctrl+R), FindWhat=\R, ReplaceWith=, (that’s comma space), ☑ In Selection, Replace All.