diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java b/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
index 00b9416d8..30c10ba4a 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/preproc/PdePreprocessor.java
@@ -461,7 +461,6 @@ public class PdePreprocessor {
 
     // if desired, serialize the parse tree to an XML file.  can
     // be viewed usefully with Mozilla or IE
-
     if (Preferences.getBoolean("preproc.output_parse_tree")) {
       writeParseTree("parseTree.xml", parserAST);
     }