Fix Empty Lines Between List Markers and Checklists Not Including Lines Made Up of Just Whitespace

__tests__/remove-empty-lines-between-list-markers-and-checklists.test.ts

@@ -71,5 +71,21 @@ ruleTest({
         ${''}
       `,
     },
+    {
+      // accounts for https://github.com/platers/obsidian-linter/issues/1354
+      testName: 'Make sure that empty lines for list markers includes lines with just whitespace',
+      before: dedent`
+        - \`Collection<E>\` represents a group of **individual elements** (E, like a list of names).
+        ${'\t'}
+        - \`Map<K, V>\` represents a collection of **key-value pairs** (e.g., a phonebook: name → number).
+        ${' \t'}
+        ${'  '}- \`List<E>\` ...
+      `,
+      after: dedent`
+        - \`Collection<E>\` represents a group of **individual elements** (E, like a list of names).
+        - \`Map<K, V>\` represents a collection of **key-value pairs** (e.g., a phonebook: name → number).
+        ${'  '}- \`List<E>\` ...
+      `,
+    },
   ],
 });

src/rules/remove-empty-lines-between-list-markers-and-checklists.ts

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export default class RemoveEmptyLinesBetweenListMarkersAndChecklists extends Rul
     return this.replaceEmptyLinesBetweenList(text, splatMarkerRegexText);
   }
   replaceEmptyLinesBetweenList = function(text: string, listIndicatorRegexText: string): string {
-    const listRegex = new RegExp(`^${listIndicatorRegexText}\n{2,}${listIndicatorRegexText}$`, 'gm');
+    const listRegex = new RegExp(`^${listIndicatorRegexText}\n(?:(?:[\t\v\f\r \u00a0\u2000-\u200b\u2028-\u2029\u3000]+)?\n){1,}${listIndicatorRegexText}$`, 'gm');
     let match;
     let newText = text;