Automatically generated Kotlin code (from Java code) loses all blank lines, making the code uglier

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When using IntelliJ IDEA's automatic Java -> Kotlin converter, the blank lines are lost, making the code not that readable. Is there an approach to avoid this or recover the blank lines?

For example,

line1;
line2;

line3;
line4;

may be converted to something without the blank line at the middle.

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1 Answers

As a workaround you may do the following:

  1. Replace all blank lines with some comment. You may do this by replacing
<Ctrl+Shift+Enter>
\s*
<Ctrl+Shift+Enter>

with

<Ctrl+Shift+Enter>
//newLine
<Ctrl+Shift+Enter>

(don't forget to turn on usage of regex):

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  1. Convert file from Java->Kotlin
  2. Delete comment (replace it with empty string)
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