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Remove empty lines

Remove empty lines

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| (17) | Free
Remove blank lines from document or selection.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Provides 2 commands

  • remove-empty-lines.inDocument - Removes empty lines in the entire document
  • remove-empty-lines.inSelection - Removes empty lines in selection. Can be used without selection (will remove all adjacent empty lines)

demo

Settings (3)

Setting Default Description
remove-empty-lines.allowedNumberOfEmptyLines 0 Number of allowed consecutive empty lines.
remove-empty-lines.runOnSave false Run remove empty lines on document save event.
remove-empty-lines.onSaveReason {"manual":true,"afterDelay":false,"focusOut":false} Controls which save event triggers running the extension (for #remove-empty-lines.runOnSave# setting).

Example: "remove-empty-lines.allowedNumberOfEmptyLines": 1,

demo_allowed_lines

Per language setting:

"remove-empty-lines.allowedNumberOfEmptyLines": 0,// allow 0 in all files
"[markdown]": {
  "remove-empty-lines.allowedNumberOfEmptyLines": 1,// allow 1 in markdown files
},

⚠⚠⚠ Extension doesn't define any keyboard shortcuts

📚 How to open keybindings.json =======>

DEMO: Pass allowed number of empty lines as arguments in keybindings.json

{
	"key": "ctrl+shift+9",
	"command": "remove-empty-lines.inDocument",
	"args": 0
},
{
	"key": "ctrl+shift+9",
	"command": "remove-empty-lines.inSelection",
	"when": "editorHasSelection",
	"args": 0
},
{
	"key": "ctrl+shift+8",
	"command": "remove-empty-lines.inDocument",
	"args": 1
},
{
	"key": "ctrl+shift+8",
	"command": "remove-empty-lines.inSelection",
	"when": "editorHasSelection",
	"args": 1
},
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