Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

Question

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

Answer 1

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...

Answer 2

There is a wonderful package (for Sublime 2 & 3) called 'Trimmer' which deletes empty lines. It also does many other useful things.

Refer this: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Trimmer

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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