Sublime Text 2 How to delete blank empty lines

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Let s say I had a text file with the following nine lines   foo  bar  baz  qux  quux   How can I use Sublime Text 2 to remove all four of the blank empty lines  leaving only five lines

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Their is a more easily way to do that without regex  you have just to select the whole text  then go to  Edit--  Permute Lines --  Unique   That s all  and all blank lines will be deleted

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A Find Replace solution   Regex Find  s   Replace with     single space

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Using find   replace  try pasting a selection starting at the end of the line above the blank line and ends at the beginning of the line after the blank   This works for a single blank line   You can repeat the process for multiple blank lines as well   CTRL-H  put your selection in the find box and put a single newline in the replace box via copy paste or other method

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There is a wonderful package  for Sublime 2  amp  3  called  Trimmer  which deletes empty lines  It also does many other useful things    Refer this  https   packagecontrol io packages Trimmer

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Don t even know how this whole thing works  but I tried    s   and didn t work  leaving still some empty lines    This instead   s  works for me    sublime text 3

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I had to use   replace  n  s  n with     n  The https   github com NicholasBuse sublime DeleteBlankLines plugin did nothing at all

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Sublime Text 2  amp  3 The Comments of  crates work for me  Step 1  Simply press on ctrl H Step 2  press on RegEX key Step 3  write this in the Find     s     n r   Step 4  replace all

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Select the text Press   Ctrl   H on PC  or Command   Alt   F on Mac or Click Find- gt Replace   Make sure you have selected  regular expression  by pressing   Alt   R on PC or Command   Alt   R on Mac or Click    in the Find box   Find what    n or    r  n r   Replace With   nothing  leave in blank

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In my case some empty lines contained the unicode character zero width space  U 200b   To rid empty lines  including the ones with this unicode character    s x 200b    s

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The regexp in Hugo s answer is correct when there is no spaces in the line  In case if there are space regexp can be   s

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There are also some ST2 ST3 Plugins for such tasks  I do like these two    Delete Blank Lines   also available via Package Control  Trailing Spaces   also available via Package Control    The first one has two methods for removing empty unnecessary lines  One of them called Delete Surplus Blank Lines which is cool  It removes only those lines that are followed by another empty line

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If     n does not work properly          try        w  n

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To find extra spaces and blank lines press  Ctrl Shift F Select Regular Expressions Find     n r  2     and then replace with    n  to remove all kind of spaces in sublime and dreamviewr

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For those who are curious of sublime text editor  the unofficial-documentation may be interesting

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Using multiple selections  select one pair of line breaks  then use Quick Find All  Alt F3   or Quick Add Next  Ctrl D  repeatedly  to select them all  then hit Enter to replace them with single line breaks

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There s also  Join lines   If on OSX  select all your text  and press CMD-J a few times  and it will collapse your selection by line  removing the line breaks    Edit  This approach will leave you with everything on one line  which is not what you asked for

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Simpler than I thought  Ctrl   A Followed by Ctrl   H Then Select Regular Expression      Replace  n n with  n  Voila

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You are looking for this     n   s     it will not delete the line  if there is content with white space or tabs in front   e g    these will not be deleted     space    abc     tab    abc  this will      space        nothing else        tab       nothing else

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Another way  you can use the command line cc dbl of ConyEdit  a plugin  to delete blank lines or empty lines

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