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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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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,
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You can also put a backslash before a newline, like this
Line1\ Line2\ Line3Looks like this:
Line1
Line2
Line3Without the backslashes: Line1 Line2 Line3
With two newlines:
Line1
Line2
Line3
Also check out this Markdown tutorial , it’s very helpful.
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.
ITT people realising what markdown is.
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
M.A.G.I.C
Markdown’s
Actually
Good
In
Comments
Aww sad :( Which client is this?
Hey I posted this super secret hack yesterday or the day before here on Lemmers in a comment.
Reddit was like that too.
Because the line break in markdown is two spaces.
Markdown is pretty great to work with.
A simple search for lemmy markdown would tell you all the different textual options for a clean Lemmy comment/post
This is standard markdown behavior. It was like this on reddit and many other places, too.
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.
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
Cool discovery.
This post is a good resource for other Lemmy formatting tips and tricks.
I recently discovered that Lemmy’s desktop site shortens groups of more than 3 exclamation points and groups of more than 3 question marks in a row down to only 3, and that pairs of periods will be rounded up into an ellipses.
I’d like to see a community to help document all of the obscure formatting tricks and quirks for Lemmy.
Edit: You can apparently circumvent Markdown formatting by putting a backslash \ in front of the command to format. For example, if you wanted to start a line with the greater than symbol >, you can put the backslash \ in front of the greater than sign > to prevent the text from being formatted as a quote
This assumes your Lemmy client uses a good markdown library.
Yes, this assumes you’re using a good Lemmy client
This assumes you’re using a client.
Look behind you.Imagine needing a client, real lemmings use the API directly with cURL
What colour are your programmer socks
OH YOUR GOD!
NO!
THE HORROR!
How often do you get to use this awesome picture? =D
Searching markdown guide & reading is free…
… implying this post isn’t. So how would you like to pay?
That’s a weird implication to suggest.
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”?
Yes. It’s markdown. It’s useful. You should read up on the basics.
