Compact docstrings in Emacs

Shrink blank lines in docstrings and doc comments

Setup

Enable locally with compact-docstrings-mode:

(add-hook 'some-mode-hook #'compact-docstrings-mode)

Enable globally (in all programming modes) with global-compact-docstrings-mode:

(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'global-compact-docstrings-mode)

Customization

Enable compaction of all comments and strings by setting compact-docstrings-only-doc-blocks to nil. Change the compact line height by customizing compact-docstrings-face.