Pasting formatted text gives double line breaks / double new line

[jezza]

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a bullet list of items in Google Docs
   

2. Copy the bullet list of items

3. Paste the bullet list of items into Obsidian

4. Bullet lists have extra line breaks
   

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes

Expected result

Actual result

Environment

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Additional information

This is essentially the same bug as reported here:

Paste Doubles All Newlines

Things I have tried Cmd-C and Cmd-V What I’m trying to do I am trying to copy a multi-line block of text from a Terminal (shell) window on MacOS and paste it into an Obsidian document. When I do so, I get an extra blank line between each copied line. e.g. This in Terminal a b c turns into this in Obsidian: a b c I can work around the problem by copying the text from the Terminal window, pasting it into TextEdit (where it does not have the extra newlines), re-copying it, and then pasting…

Pasting formatted text results in doubled newlines

Steps to reproduce In Apple Notes, copy any block of standard text that contains newlines with cmd-C Paste the text into any note in Obsidian with cmd-P Expected result The text that was copied appears in Obsidian Actual result The text that was copied appears in Obsidian, but every newline now has an extra newline after it. e.g. a single-space list becomes a double-spaced list Environment Operating system: MacOS Big Sur Debug info: SYSTEM INFO: Obsidian version: v0.14.2 Insta…

Obviously, you can paste without formatting and convert the text to a list, but I was going to copy in a document that has many lists and sublists split by multiple headings, so it was going to be troublesome to reformat them all.
In the meantime, I’ll find a regex find and replace and remove the extra linebreak.

Keep up the good work.

[WhiteNoise]

Are the extra new lines present in the html on the clipboard? This was the problem in the other cases. If they are, we won’t remove them.

[PKMian]

A search for Google Docs to Markdown yielded this Docs to Markdown add-on. Looks like it could make things easier for you.

[macallik]

I believe that double lines happens in Docs 2 Markdown as well.

What worked for me was to copy the markdown to a text editor (I used Kate but any will do) and use Find & Replace (w/ RegEx enabled) to remove double lines:

Find: \n\n
Replace: \n

On a related noted, Docs to Markdown has been hit or miss for me, especially for files w/ a lot of images.

I had a file w/ +700 photos in it and so instead of manually pasting each image, I decided to export as .html and then import that into Obsidian which did the trick.

I still had to trim the double spacing fyi, but I was able to rename the file and bulk move all of the pics to my image folder in Obsidian.

[cvanhenten]

I have same problem and in the clipboard there is no double line breaks

[holroy]

The easier way I’ve found to deal with this is to use Shift Cmd V. This doesn’t give me the double line shift issue, which I’m gyesding could be related to different line ending issues.