Make an new empty line ever 7th line

Adam Larsson

I’ve got a long list of dates, one on each line.
now I want to add an empty line every 7th line (to add an empty line when I new week begins)

I’ve tried to create a macro by recording, but it’s not working, neither does the npp manual site.

any other ways to add a new line every 7th line?

Alan Kilborn

@Adam-Larsson

Any particular reason you posted the same thing TWICE?

Please don’t do that.

Adam Larsson

@Alan-Kilborn Yeah, I pressed reload on my phone by mistake, wasn’t suppose to post it twice…

I’ve corrected it.

guy038

Hello, @adam-larsson and All,

A general regex S/R, to add a blank line, every 7 lines of a list, could be used !

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
SEARCH ^(.+\R){7}\K
REPLACE \r\n OR \n ( if you use UNIX files )
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click on the Replace All button ( Do NOT use the Replace button )

Et voilà !

Best Regards,

guy038

Adam Larsson

@guy038 said in Make an new empty line ever 7th line:

^(.+\R){7}\K

It’s this every 7th line from the beginning of the document or current cursor position?

Alan Kilborn

@Adam-Larsson said in Make an new empty line ever 7th line:

It’s this every 7th line from the beginning of the document or current cursor position?

Current caret position.
Tick Wrap around for beginning-of-doc origination.

Alan Kilborn

@guy038

Because the use of \K (usually) eliminates the possibility to do single, step-by-step replaces, wouldn’t it be better to specify such regexes without using \K, especially for newbies, that probably like the confidence of a single-step replace?

Maybe not totally applicable in this case, though.

But, I would write it without the \K.

Adam Larsson

@Alan-Kilborn Works Perfectly, thx a lot!
just pressed replace all…

guy038

Hi, @adam-larsson, @alan-kilborn, and All,

@adam-larsson :

If you do not tick the Wrap around option, it adds a blank line, every block of 7 non-empty lines from caret location till the very end of file
If you tick the Wrap around option, it adds a blank line, every block of 7 non-empty lines, from beginning of file till the very end of file

Alan, I understand your restriction regarding the \K feature. Luckily, thanks to @Uhf7, it will be possible to use, very soon, in a next release, the \K feature with the step by step replacement. Nice, isn’t it ?!

BR

guy038