Text Editing & Formatting

Join Lines

Join non-empty selected lines with spaces.

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Overview

What Join Lines does

Handles standard and rich-text line breaks, trims each line, removes blank lines, and joins the remainder with one space.

CategoryText Editing & Formatting
Action typeJavaScript
Default resultReplace selected text by default
InternetNot required

Example

Action and outcome

Join Lines example
ActionOutcome
Join LinesSelected text: First line second line third lineFirst line second line third line

Workflow

Use Join Lines

Follow these steps to join non-empty selected lines with spaces with ActionClip.

  1. Select the text you want to use.
  2. Choose Join Lines from ActionClip.
  3. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

  • Before you start: No setup required.
  • Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition
function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text
    .split(/\r\n|[\n\r\u000B\u000C\u0085\u2028\u2029]/)
    .map((line) => line.trim())
    .filter((line) => line.length > 0)
    .join(" ");
}