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

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[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

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[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

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