2.0 upgrade removes double empty lines

[gioccher]

in 1.1 this was considered valid (and to me desirable):

whatever: true


something: 42

v2.x instead removes duplicated empty lines

whatever: true

something: 42

I like having double empty lines to separate long sections. Is this configurable?

[longkai]

Hi, thanks for the issue.

The v1 version implementation is sometimes buggy and may not result same results especially involves comment.

The v2 version focus the consistency of result so multiple successive empty lines would result one.

If you want to separate the long sections I suppose using comments would be better and more reasonable?

[gioccher]

Thanks for looking into this so quickly!
I didn't realize v1 was supposed to remove double empty lines - it never did for me.
I also didn't think two empty lines would be an considered an issue since that's the default for yamllint
https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint/blob/master/yamllint/rules/empty_lines.py#L69

Would it be possible to make the max number of empty lines configurable or make it default to 2?

[longkai]

Hi, sorry for the delay.

I still think comment is a better way to do separates.

And if you put a comment above, you can place any empty lines as you like. For example:

aa: aa
# this  is a comment



bb:
  cc: ccccc