Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

Question

Select the text

Press:

• Ctrl + H on PC, or
• Command + Alt + F on Mac or
• Click Find->Replace.

Make sure you have selected 'regular expression' by pressing:

• Alt + R on PC or
• Command + Alt + R on Mac or
• Click .* in the Find box.

Find what: ^\n or ^(\r|\n\r?)

Replace With: (nothing, leave in blank).

The regexp in Hugo's answer is correct when there is no spaces in the line. In case if there are space regexp can be ^\s+$

There are also some ST2/ST3 Plugins for such tasks. I do like these two:

• Delete Blank Lines (also available via Package Control)
• Trailing Spaces (also available via Package Control)

The first one has two methods for removing empty/unnecessary lines. One of them called Delete Surplus Blank Lines which is cool. It removes only those lines that are followed by another empty line

A Find/Replace solution:

Regex Find:\s+

Replace with: //single space

Don't even know how this whole thing works, but I tried ^\s*$ and didn't work (leaving still some empty lines).

This instead ^\s* works for me

{sublime text 3}

I had to use:

replace \n^\s*\n with \n

The https://github.com/NicholasBuse/sublime_DeleteBlankLines plugin did nothing at all.

Sublime Text 2 & 3

The Comments of @crates work for me,

Step 1: Simply press on ctrl+H

Step 2: press on RegEX key

Step 3: write this in the Find: ^[\s]*?[\n\r]+

Step 4: replace all