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Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I apologize if this is not right to post here but im not sure where to go with this one as i havent really found an answer myself.

See, heres the thing, as yall surely know when i hit enter on a line once it will not work, it has to be two.

Is that intentional, if so why?

how does one disable that?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is how markdown works. There is no way to disable that. This is an old convention from when text editors didn’t wrap lines automatically and enables you to write long paragraphs of text, breaking the lines as it makes sense to you, without creating a paragraph each time.

See the Lemmy help page on markdown or the Markdown Guide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The “workaround” is to use a backslash to sort of escape the default behavior:

This is line one \
This is line two

Without the code formatting, of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should also be able to just put two spaces
At the end of a line to insert a line break.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yup, that works too.