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When I paste source code in Google docs document, every line of the source is on a new paragraph. That creates unnatural spacing between lines.
I can manually fix this by tediously removing each paragraph and then inserting new line with Shift+Enter. But is there a way to avoid having bunch of paragraphs for every new line?
It looks like Google is going to be rolling out an update which is supposed to fix the issue. In the meantime, I ended up using a workaround which was satisfactory for me, though a little extra time-consuming. I read a few places about "soft returns" AKA "manual line breaks" which is what happens when you do a Shift+Enter (or Shift+Return). I had heard of these before but never knew what practical use they had. I replaced all the vertical whitespace-creating line breaks (wherever I had previously hit Enter on a blank line) with Shift+Enter soft returns and when I copy-pasted the document into the text editor this time it did not add the extra line breaks. I was thinking about trying to do a search and replace with regular expressions to save myself all the manual edits but now it looks like I may not have to if the update works.
Ok, I found a hack to do this. Press enter to create new list item and then create a third one:
The third item prevents you from being unable to continue the list later on. Now press tab to indent the second item:
And finally, press back space to "delete" the indented item. It will become a paragraph:
It prevents you from continuing the list though.
Best Answer
It sounds as though formatting is being carried over from your source code editor. If you don't mind removing all formatting (such as colors & fonts), this is what I've done on a PC:
There is probably a similar Mac program that will strip away formatting, if you need it.