Hiall! Happy Spring!

I'm getting really tired of editing snips containing HTML given
vanilla's propensity for interpreting whitespace as carriage returns.
If I edit the HTML in a "pretty" format, vanilla stretches the
resulting page out mindlessly; if I remove all white space, the result
is correct, but editing is hell. What's the point of all the newlines?
Where is this happening? Does this work this way because of something
else important, or can it be changed?

TIA!

Pete Wason