An option to not ignore comments and duplicate empty lines and instead interpret them as separate items

I am writing an editor and there is a problem that 
```
foo


bar
```
is interpreted the same as
```
foo

bar
```
This is okay when the user only views the end result. But in an editor it would feel confusing that if the user presses newlines and nothing hapens. Same applies to comments. I want to show them if the cursor is on the same line as them.