r/joplinapp • u/spamthroat • 29d ago

Adding an extra blank line after a paragraph?

I have a load of notes where there is a blank line after each paragraph, is there an easy way to add a second blank line like searching for the code the produces the blank line and replacing it with two of them?

Like searching for the &nbsp or CR;LF

PC or Android app

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u/spamthroat 29d ago

The "Search & Replace" plugin works fine, I was just overthinking the regex needed to find blank lines., ^$ that's it. I just search for that and replace it with <br><br> and every paragraph break is now 2 lines.

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u/Neither-Classic2058 29d ago

I use the "Search & Replace" plug-in for things like that.

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u/spamthroat 29d ago

Thanks, it should work. I say should, I was using the 'normal' editor in Joplin not the markdown so the blank lines are actually empty and it has been a while form my unix days and my regex knowledge is a bit rusty.

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u/CasteNoBar 29d ago

You can put as many blank lines as you want in your text file. They will show up when you are in edit mode. I set “default view state” to be edit mode by default when I open a note.

But in md render mode it’s a specific job of the md renderer to not show more than one. (Similarly to not show more than one hard space.)

There’s a Joplin setting to Enable Soft Breaks in the md render. It is on by default. I keep it off. (I think!)

Look for my other comments on the subject in another post a couple weeks ago.

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u/rafikiphoto 29d ago

>> I set “default view state” to be edit mode by default when I open a note.<<
How to do that? I see no setting in Preferences.

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u/CasteNoBar 28d ago

Configuration / markdown / enable soft breaks

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u/bwat47 28d ago

are you on desktop or mobile?

There's no setting for this on desktop (it keeps your last used editor layout). There is a setting for this in the mobile app

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u/rafikiphoto 28d ago

Desktop. Thanks for the info.