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fanta Guest

Editor creates blank lines

2008-06-12 15:07

Has anyone realised that editor causes empty spaces in html/php/css etc. files? Everytime I open my files – under each line of text appears empty line, so after opening the same file many times I have lots of empty spaces between each line of code... Does anyone have the same problem? How to solve this?

Thanks.

Example:

#header {
 
 
 
   width: 750px;
 
 
 
   height: 140px;
 
 
 
   float:left;
 
 
 
   background-color:#FFFFFF;
 
 
}

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: Editor creates blank lines

2008-06-13

What version of WinSCP are you using? What editor do you mean? The internal one? What is your server? What is your configuration of End-of-line characters?

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dzoniboj Guest

Same problem

2015-01-20 12:40

I am having the exact same problem, and it just started happening recently.

I've been using WinSCP for around 8 months with no problems like this.

I use Sublime text editor and edit html, css and php files.

What can be done?

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Same problem

2015-01-23

@dzoniboj: What protocol? SFTP or FTP?

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Guest

2015-01-24 09:58

FTP

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2015-01-27

Please attach a full log file showing the problem (using the latest version of WinSCP). I.e. connection, open the file in editor and save it.

To generate log file, enable logging, log in to your server and do the operation and only the operation that causes the error. Submit the log with your post as an attachment. Note that passwords and passphrases not stored in the log. You may want to remove other data you consider sensitive though, such as host names, IP addresses, account names or file names (unless they are relevant to the problem). If you do not want to post the log publicly, you can mark the attachment as private.

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dzoniboj Guest

2015-02-02 10:09

I enabled logging, connected and directly opened a certain file with blank lines in it.

Hopefully that did it.

ultranet@ultranetdesign.net.log (7.58 KB, Private file)

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Guest

2015-02-07 17:01

I went to transfer options, it was binary, I set it to text, and it seems to be ok now.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2015-02-10

@dzoniboj: Thanks for the log. Can I get a test account on your server?

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2015-02-17

I have installed Pure-FTPd to confirm that this is an interoperability issue.

< 2015-02-02 10:06:41.485 220 ---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------

I have documented this:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_line_breaks#known_issues

test.log (12 Bytes, Private file)

Description: test attachment

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Knocks
Joined:: 2014-06-06
Posts:: 2

2015-04-10 03:24

This issue baffled me too for a while, and I even filed a support ticket with my host. The fix was pretty easy, all you need to do is uncheck the box on the attached screenshot.

Martin, you might want to disable this setting by default for external editors in future versions.

COCFuGu.png (102.32 KB)

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martin◆ Site Admin
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2015-04-10

@Knocks: The option is disabled by default for external editors, except for the default Notepad.
See also this link (posted above already):
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_line_breaks#known_issues

editor_preferences.png (9.78 KB)

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FranciscoMarconi Guest

Thanks

2021-01-15 02:39

@Knocks: Thank you!

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Thanks

2021-01-15

The next version of WinSCP will uncheck that box automatically when you change the editor from Notepad to another:
Issue 1872 – Automatically restore external editor defaults when changing editor command from Notepad to 3rd party editor

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