> On May 24, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Mark Mayberry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> BBEdit Text (Menu) >> Remove Line Breaks strips away the line breaks from
> within the paragraphs and leaves double line breaks at the end of each
> paragraph.
>
> How can I reproduce this specific action using Text Factory?
I can’t give you a direct answer, but many of the BBEdit Text menu commands
amount to commonly used grep replacements, packaged up in an easier-to-use
form, and you can always use a search-and-replace in a Text Factory.
As best I can tell, the following grep replacement will give you the Remove
Line Breaks behavior you are looking for.
Find: (?s)(?<!\n)\n(?!\n)
Replace:
(That is a single space as the Replace value.)
The (?s) tells the search string to match across multiple lines.
The (?<!\n) says to find only matches that are not preceded by a new-line.
The \n Is what the search actually matches — a new-line.
And the (?!\n) says to only find matches that are not followed by a new-line.
In short, the pattern finds all standalone new-lines (i.e., new-lines that are
neither preceded nor followed by another new-line) and replaces them with
spaces.
Given this input:
abc
def
ghi
jkl
mno
pqr
stu
v
w
x
It changes it to:
abc def ghi
jkl mno
pqr
stu v w x
Regards,
Neil Faiman
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