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    Alan Kilborn @Alan Kilborn
    last edited by Jul 17, 2019, 2:43 PM

    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.)

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      Alan Kilborn
      last edited by Jul 17, 2019, 2:54 PM

      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. :)

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        Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
        last edited by Jul 17, 2019, 3:01 PM

        @Alan-Kilborn

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

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          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
          last edited by Alan Kilborn Jul 17, 2019, 3:40 PM Jul 17, 2019, 3:39 PM

          @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…

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            Sean Shaffer
            last edited by PeterJones Jan 29, 2025, 8:04 PM Jul 17, 2019, 9:58 PM

            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

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              Sean Shaffer
              last edited by Jul 17, 2019, 11:09 PM

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

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                A3 W2 @Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Aug 9, 2022, 12:36 AM

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

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                  A3 W2 @Sean Shaffer
                  last edited by Aug 9, 2022, 12:41 AM

                  @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.

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                    A3 W2 @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Aug 9, 2022, 12:52 AM

                    @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.

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                      Slobodan Krstić
                      last edited by Mar 27, 2024, 12:10 PM

                      Re: How to insert blank line in between every line
                      Using column selection (alt - left mouse btn)
                      A.png
                      press enter
                      B.png
                      Maybe the fastest way :))

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                        Chris Stott
                        last edited by Jan 29, 2025, 7:46 PM

                        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

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                          Alan Kilborn @Chris Stott
                          last edited by Alan Kilborn Jan 29, 2025, 9:53 PM Jan 29, 2025, 8:02 PM

                          @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.

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                            Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                            last edited by Jan 30, 2025, 10:34 AM

                            @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

                            No … I have zero dollars, you have two? No cookies for me :(

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