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Hey I posted this super secret hack yesterday or the day before here on Lemmers in a comment.
Ok this was awesome. I wondered what I was doing wrong.
Reddit was like that too.
Because the line break in markdown is two spaces.
Markdown is pretty great to work with.
Searching markdown guide & reading is free…
... implying this post isn't. So how would you like to pay?
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?
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.
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”?
That's a weird implication to suggest.
Line 1 Line 2
Line 3
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Line 5
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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
You have given me power that I should not have.
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Doing the Lord's work
Still works better when encased with code block stuff, ```
A simple search for lemmy markdown would tell you all the different textual options for a clean Lemmy comment/post
I always defaulted to a bullet list.
No more
ITT people realising what markdown is.
M.A.G.I.C
Markdown's
Actually
Good
In
Comments
#IKR
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
Yes. It's markdown. It's useful. You should read up on the basics.
You can also add a \ to the end
of the lines and have only single spaced
line breaks
Though I think they may break in one of the mobile apps with a funky markdown interpreter.
Edit: For clarity, here's the same lines in a codeblock
You can also add a \ to the end\
of the lines and have only single spaced\
line breaks
Well, I think
That changes
How I write some stuff
edit: the 2 white spaces didn't work
edit2: the white spaces have to be on the PREVIOUS line, not "behind", which I thought meant "start the line with 2 spaces"
I edited my original to clarify. Thanks!
Oh
My
God
This is awesome
Neat.
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who sold crabs from out of a bucket
He made seven pence
and took home the scents
He thought he'd become Warren Buffett
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
He said with a grin
As he wiped off his chin
If my ear was a cunt, I would fuck it
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket
His daughter named Nan
Ran off with a man
And as for the cash, Nantucket
I couldn't get it to work.
I'm on sync and my formatting had to be
<Text [Space] [Space] [Enter] Text>
Dunno if it's an app thing or an instance thing
I'm on sync as well. Also compounded by my phone auto typing the word with 2 spaces.
Test
Test
Test
test
test
test
FUCK YEAAAAAHHH
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