Extra spaces with templater

[Giulioxk1]

What I’m trying to do

Hi, I’m trying to create a simple template that takes the current selection and subscript it. The script works but it adds a lot of useless white lines. In this state is really annoying to use. I included a video of the problem.

Things I have tried

<sub><%_ tp.file.selection() _%></sub>

I hope that you can help me out. Thank you.

[Jopp]

You are quicker to report this issue on Templaters repo on Github than to ask for a provisory solution here.

Anyway, you could use Linter, this plugin strips notes of useless characters, and is very convenient to use , thanks to keyboard shortcuts

[Giulioxk1]

Thank you for your help!
I will try to do as you said.

[Anwen]

Are you sure that you didn’t have any lines after your line of code in the template and that there is no empty line after it? When I had this problem, it was due to that.
For exemple:

<sub><%_ tp.file.selection() _%></sub>

instead of :

<sub><%_ tp.file.selection() _%></sub>

[ush]

Sorry, I was hasty.

If Templater doesn’t work, consider using a QuickAdd macro with the following user script:

module.exports = ({ app }) => {
    const editor = app.workspace.activeEditor.editor;
    editor.replaceSelection('<sub>' + editor.getSelection() + '</sub>');
}

Demo:

You can set your custom hotkey as well.

[Pch]

I was not able to reproduce the spacing issue using a template containing simply this :

<sub><% tp.file.selection() %></sub>

[Giulioxk1]

Thanks a lot guys! The solution with QuickAdd was also really good and it would have worked perfectly for me. Next time I will double-check before creating a post.