Can cells be merged without adding a blank line

Question

If I merge multiple cells in a Jupyter notebook, there is a blank line between the code from each cell.

Can I merge cells without this blank line?

Answer 1

• No, this is the expected behavior.
• Here is the source for mergeCells
• Here is the line that joins the contents toMerge
  • newModel.value.text = toMerge.join('\n\n');
    • const toMerge: string[] = [];
  • Note, there are 2 new lines, '\n' in the .join(), therefore the answer to Can I merge cells without this blank line? is no, unless you do a PR for the project, change the desired line, compile and run it on your system.