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This is a first line This is a second line This is the third line.

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These all appear on the same line eventhough I wrote them on separate lines

If I add a “enter” after each line, they’ll appear on separate lines, but have white spaces in between.

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This is the first line

This is the second line

This is the third line.

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Now I only add two spaces behind each line and they’ll appear just as I wrote them

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This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.

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  • AugustWest@lemm.ee
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    Reddit was like that too.

    Because the line break in markdown is two spaces.

    Markdown is pretty great to work with.

  • x00z@lemmy.world
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    Hey I posted this super secret hack yesterday or the day before here on Lemmers in a comment.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    Line 1 Line 2

    Line 3

    Line 4

    Line 5
    Line 6

    Line 7
    Line 8

    Edit: mm idk doesn’t work for me

    Edit: got it, so for example on “Line 5” you add 2 whitespaces at the end. Alternatively, on “Line 7” you can add a backslash \ at the end. I think I will use backslash

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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        implying this post isn’t

        Nope: not reading documentation is also free. Only costs more time.

        So how would you like to pay?

        Do you accept Rai stones? What’s the total? Payment plan available?

        • abbadon420@lemm.eeOP
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          Reading documentation is not for “the average person”, only professionals and enthusiasts. Now, I know Lemmy has plenty of both, but its certainly not a given that someone is one of those. For “the average person” a post like this is much more practical.

          • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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            Are you suggesting the documentation

            For a line break, add either a backslash \ or two blank spaces at the end of the line.

            with example

            This is a\
            line break.
            

            & interactive exercises is harder to understand than your post?

            Reading documentation is not for “the average person”

            Your post is basically longer, less clear documentation: wouldn’t that take more effort for “the average person”?

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    You can also put a backslash before a newline, like this

    Line1\
    Line2\
    Line3
    

    Looks like this:

    Line1
    Line2
    Line3

    Without the backslashes: Line1 Line2 Line3

    With two newlines:

    Line1

    Line2

    Line3

    Also check out this Markdown tutorial , it’s very helpful.

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      This does not seem to render as intended in Sync. It’s like the opposite effect. The backslashes are showing in the comments, but invisible in the code blocks lol.

    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
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      Discovered this as well the other day. Much better for me, since you can see it, and also 2 spacebar hits on mobile makes a full-stop/period for me.

      • abbadon420@lemm.eeOP
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        Same, I actually do three spaces if you count the full-stop. (I didn’t count it)

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      One time on Reddit there was a whole thread dedicated to how awful and arbitrary and stupid the “undocumented” comment feature was.

      I just linked the markdown docs and got downvoted to hell because “reading the manual is unintuitive”

      Comments truly did kill that platform

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    This is standard markdown behavior. It was like this on reddit and many other places, too.

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      One of the things I don’t like about markdown. Carriage returns are just built into most languages now. I shouldn’t have to use double spaces (which put auto periods in on iOS and Android) or a slash to get the same effect. That’s counterintuitive.

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        It’s a feature. The / means you can write your lines as long as you editor Windows is, but when someone rendering it as rtf they cannot just wrapper it any way they want. Doesn’t matter if they’re reading it in portrait view or landscape

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          I think word wrapping is automatically assumed is the default. I’m not aware of any rtf editors that don’t display wrapped as the default.

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            I wrote out a whole massive reply that ended with ‘and there’s no real reason to break this…’ and then I thought… But really? Actually there are so many form factors in which you can view Lemmy that ‘pre-rendering’ the line breaks makes basically no sense, and I can’t think of many tools or typing habits that would otherwise introduce them

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    I didn’t know this, and I found it super helpful!
    I also didn’t know about backslashes
    I just used double carriage returns like a wild savage!

    Thanks very much :)