From 22d4af4482377949b1f1cc77389b4fc3577d1ea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Svensson <patrik@patriksvensson.se>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:35:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Preserve line breaks

---
 src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs |  1 +
 .../Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs                  | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs            |  9 ++++++---
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs
index e1d6dad..887d983 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Fixtures/PlainConsole.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests
         public Color Background { get; set; }
 
         public StringWriter Writer { get; }
+        public string RawOutput => Writer.ToString();
         public string Output => Writer.ToString().TrimEnd('\n');
         public IReadOnlyList<string> Lines => Output.Split(new char[] { '\n' });
 
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs
index b94c6ac..360faf4 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console.Tests/Unit/Composition/TextTests.cs
@@ -21,6 +21,20 @@ namespace Spectre.Console.Tests.Unit
                 .ShouldBe("Hello World");
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void Should_Write_Line_Breaks()
+        {
+            // Given
+            var fixture = new PlainConsole(width: 5);
+            var text = Text.New("\n\n");
+
+            // When
+            fixture.Render(text);
+
+            // Then
+            fixture.RawOutput.ShouldBe("\n\n");
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Should_Split_Unstyled_Text_To_New_Lines_If_Width_Exceeds_Console_Width()
         {
diff --git a/src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs b/src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs
index d7de7dd..d55f9a6 100644
--- a/src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs
+++ b/src/Spectre.Console/Composition/Text.cs
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         IEnumerable<Segment> IRenderable.Render(RenderContext context, int width)
         {
-            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_text))
+            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_text))
             {
                 return Array.Empty<Segment>();
             }
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                     }
                 }
 
-                if (!last)
+                if (!last || line.Count == 0)
                 {
                     result.Add(Segment.LineBreak());
                 }
@@ -214,7 +214,10 @@ namespace Spectre.Console
                 var index = segment.Text.IndexOf("\n", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
                 if (index == -1)
                 {
-                    result.Add(segment);
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(segment.Text))
+                    {
+                        result.Add(segment);
+                    }
                 }
                 else
                 {