Regex can be shortened to ^$\n - reproduced here also - should match empty line followed by a newline. However I am wondering what the use case is - why not just ^$ (why trailing newline)?

@Bill-Stewart I have the same question asked in #11572. For empty lines you just need ^\s*$ and do not need \n at the end of the reg ex. But I see some inconsistency between selected matches and line highlights when \n at the end. I will investigate why is this difference occurring.

Thanks

I agree the behavior seems puzzling. It seems that the match should not include the end of non-empty lines.

@sandy081 this seems for me fixed on 1.9.0

@therealmarv I still see it in insiders

sorry! Thanks for the gif. I've first thought of marking instead of highlighting. So this is a pure cosmetic problem. btw. searching, editing (like removing) all this empty lines e.g. with multi cursor works.