Remove empty lines

[Xover]

Hi,

I'm trying Textpad now since 1 week and I like it. However there's one problem I have.
When I write code, Textpad automatically sets the whitespaces or tabs when I jump to the next line. I would like to remove these whitespaces and tabs from empty lines with some regexp or so because if there are a lot of them it makes the files a lot bigger. Is that possible? An example of what I mean:

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if ($foo) {
                  <---- here are some whitespaces and/or tabs, that I dont need.
  echo 'test';
}

[s_reynisson]

TP includes a macro called Delete Blank Lines, goto Configure->Preferences->Macros to add it to the Macro menu, if you want you can add a keyboard shortcut for it, goto Configure->Preferences->Keyboard.
You might also want to look at Configure->Preferences->Document Classes->*Your Class*->Tabulation, maybe even for the Default class. You will also find the Help file ... err ... helpful on these topics. HTH

[talleyrand]

On a per document basis, right click the background, select preferences:
Check Strip Trailing Spaces to remove excess trailing WS
Uncheck Automatically Indent Blocks

To apply changes permanently, do the same to the document class.

[Xover]

@s_reynisson: that's not exactly what I want. I want to keep the empty lines, but I want to make them empty. Because of the automatic indent of Textpad there are sometimes many spaces and/or tabs. But I don't want to deactivate the automatic indent.

[MudGuard]

Then replace
line start followed by any amount of space or tab followed by line end with nothing::

search for
^[ \t]+$

replace by nothing

Regex must be switched on.


Alternatively you could set

Configure - Preferences - Document Classes - your document class - Strip trailing white spaces when saving

But this would affect not-empty lines as well.

[Xover]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was searching for!