Combine multiple lines into one using Sublime Text

Question

I am very new to Sublime Text and I am sure this is a naive question. View multiple line selections at http://www.sublimetext.com/ (2/6 slide). Absolutely love it.

I understand that Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + L are "multiple-selects" so we can do the editing at the same time. However, in the demo, they also combine all the lines into one line. What is a shortcut for this?
I used Ctrl + J , but it just deletes once, not all occurrences of a new line.

I use TextPad and use Find / Replace \n with empty space. But it seems that the person giving the demo is using some kind of shortcut.

Answer 1

I think that in the demo, he presses Del , with the cursor at the end of the line, in several selections. Thus, \n is deleted on every selected line.

Answer 2

The only shortcut to concatenate multiple lines into 1 is “connection strings”.

• Command + J on Mac to join lines.
• CTRL + J on Windows
• Edit> Lines> Merge Lines

Another approach is manifested in demo animations at sublimetext.com . Using multiple selections, CTRL + Shift + L is used to split the selection into lines, and each line is then edited at the same time. end + del will then remove all line breaks. This can be seen on slide 2/6 at http://sublimetexttips.com/7-handy-text-manipulation-tricks-sublime-text-2/

Answer 3

editing

join Attaches the next line to the current line, replacing all spaces with space by one space

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/commands

Go to the edit item in the menu, Edit → line → join lines

Answer 4

ctrl+a and ctrl+j seem to work on sublime text 3.

Answer 5

If you want to combine the lines into one line, which will also remove the beginning and end of the space from the line, the following expression should work:

 Find What: ^\s*(.+)\s*\n Replace With: \1 

Answer 6

Join lines is a good command, but it adds spaces between the joined lines. To concatenate strings without spacing, the easiest way is as follows:

• Find -> Replace (Command + Option + F on Mac)
• Ctrl+Enter to enter a new line in the Find What field.
• Do not enter anything in the Replace With field.
• Click Replace All .