Description: ------------ It would be nice if there was an option to leave blank lines, since they could be there to improve readability. Ideally there would be an option to * replace all white space-only lines with an empty line * specify a maximum number of blank lines in a row (I used 2 in my example) Test script: --------------- //something followed by (too) many empty lines //some more //next line actually does something echo ("Hello world!"); Expected result: ---------------- //something followed by (too) many empty lines //some more //next line actually does something echo ("Hello world!"); Actual result: -------------- //something followed by (too) many empty lines //some more //next line actually does something echo ("Hello world!");

Yes! I can't believe this option is not part of this package already; while correcting indentation certainly helps make a code file more readable, stripping out all the empty lines can make it worse than the original! I agree there should be a way to preserve newlines in the file and specify a maximum number of consecutive newlines (IE empty lines).

I agree. The removal of all blank lines is very difficult to read.

I agree that newlines should not be stripped. This is a total deal-breaker for me. Code without blank lines is not more beautiful.

YES!! My project director just decided to use this against all our code and stripping out all the blank lines has me all in a tizzy. I agree with the above statement that code all squashed together is not beautiful! Thanks, Alan

First priority, boys!

Nice, we'd like to see this fixed as well. This is a showstopper for us as we use whitespaces to clearify the code. Thanks

What about this bug ? Any updates ? Still "assigned"...

Claudio bustos is working on it, but you can find a temporal solution in http://github.com/jespino/PHP_Beautifier/tree/whitespaces Anyway, Claudio is working in a better solution.

Unfortunately, jespino, I can't get your version to work. The tar.gz version seems to remove all blank lines and then insert a blank line after every comment line. The latest version in your git repo seems to simply remove all blank lines, just like the standard version. Am I missing some trick on how to run this.

How is the status with this issue? Will there any progress? Is the project dead?