Sometimes QGIS inserts extra blank lines in the project macros when saving

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Author Name: Alister Hood (@AlisterH)
Original Redmine Issue: 6407
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:project_loading/saving

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Sometimes when I open a different project and QGIS asks if I want to save the current project, and I say yes, it adds an extra newline after every line of code (including blank lines) in the project macros.

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Related issue(s): #16641 (duplicates), #17070 (duplicates)
Redmine related issue(s): 7735, 8267

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Author Name: Alister Hood (@AlisterH)

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I'm not 100% sure, but I think this happened on the several occasions when it occurred:

• I opened the project and edited the project macros
• I saved the project
• I tried to open another project and for some reason it asked me to save again

That was on Windows. As far as I can tell, on Linux it never asks you to save the project after you edit the macros, so if nothing else has changed then you lose your changes. And so far I've never had it add all the newlines on Linux.

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Author Name: Andreas Neumann (@andreasneumann)

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Interesting.

I observed a similar behavior on Windows if you put metadata in text areas with new-lines (e.g. in the OWS tab (project properties) in the WMS description).

I would assume it is an issue with new-lines that multiply themselves.

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Author Name: Olivier Dalang (@olivierdalang)

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Hi !

This is probably a duplicate of #16641

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• category_id was configured as Project Loading/Saving

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Fixed in changeset "d62a49810e6117d3b3815c9c2367f7ac745f054b".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed