Odd editing behavior

[MerlinMama]

I've only ever noticed this happening when I edit my fanfics.

At the end of a chapter (file), there are sometimes notes which I want remove. For example:

...</p>
  </div><b>Notes for the Chapter:</b><blockquote class="userstuff">
          <p>Blah, Blah, notes, thoughts, coming attractions, blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth</p>
        </blockquote></div>

Now, I remove the space(s) in front of the first </div>, then select all the text between the two </div>. Since I want to have the 2nd </div> on the next line, my first thought is to hit enter.

I expect to see:

...</p>
</div>
</div>

What actually happens is:

...</p>
</div>
        </div>

Anywhere else in the text that I've tried, if I select a bunch of text and hit enter, the expected happens: the text is deleted and everything after is on the next line with no extra spaces, tabs, etc.

If I then select from right after the > to < and hit enter, the spaces remain. If I select from right after the > to < and hit delete, the spaces are gone, and then hitting enter works as expected.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

I've only ever noticed this happening when I edit my fanfics.

...</p>
  </div><b>Notes for the Chapter:</b><blockquote class="userstuff">
          <p>Blah, Blah, notes, thoughts, coming attractions, blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth</p>
        </blockquote></div>

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This is naked text (not in a Block level tag) that may be tripping up the indention

[MerlinMama]

Originally Posted by theducks

This is naked text (not in a Block level tag) that may be tripping up the indention

But once it's gone, shouldn't a return or enter still be able to get rid of those spaces? It thankfully doesn't come up too often, but also because of that I forget that enter doesn't work. It (obviously) doesn't bother anything that the spaces are there, but I can't stand seeing them.

Just like if there are five blank lines between paragraphs. They don't render as blank lines in any viewer or reader, but if I know they're there, they annoy me LOL

[gbm]

What happens when you use delete or cut text?

benie

[MerlinMama]

Delete works as expected, but I never remember to use it first. So instead of return/enter and finished (which is what I do without really thinking about it), I have to remember to do delete then return/enter.

I can't say I've ever tried cut text, but I expect it to work as delete...yep, just tried it and it works like delete does.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by MerlinMama

snip

Just like if there are five blank lines between paragraphs. They don't render as blank lines in any viewer or reader, but if I know they're there, they annoy me LOL

Those empty line returns may not render but they do slow down the reader or reader app.

If there is more than one return then I use the following regex to remove them:
search:

>\n*<

Replace

>\n<

With Project Gutenberg ebooks they have a lot returns in the text so I remove all returns then put them back between block elements.


bernie