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1. philpeeps
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I tried searching here and with google but no luck. Why do the built-in plugin and theme editors add extra blank lines with every save....

   For example,

   code
code
code

   would become

   code

   code

   code

   upon saving with the built in editor...

2. patrickw
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   It is because of carriage returns. When the file is saved it is saved with /r/n which normally in windows means one break like the first example you have but on this it is used to either just /r or just /n so when you put both together you get two breaks.

   Open it up in a hex editor and get rid of them and that should do the trick.

3. philpeeps
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Ok...so it is just an annoying idiosyncrasy that cannot be fixed? Sometimes when making a quick change it is nice to use the built in editors, but then it makes clean up a pain when I finally open the files in a regular text editor after several edits from WordPress....

4. greatbananas
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I have the exact same problem!!

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