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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The idea of MD is that text remains human readable in both your code editor and converted to HTML.
In the code editor you’ll want to add line breaks because other wise you get horizontal overflow.
The final HTML does things differently because of the concept of pargaraphs.

I find that neither “historical” nor irritating.

Some implementations of MD do exactly what you want btw.

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9limmer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I kind of understand what you’re saying. But in an age of smartphones, I have to manually add double spaces at the end of every line for the end product to display as it appears when editing it. This probably seems trivial and stupid for folks on desktop, but even Discord has this figured out. Is this something that needs to be added at the app level?

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Well, using markdown on a phone is like hammering screws into a wall, so don’t complain when the pictures fall off the wall.
  
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- Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m not sure how it’s more or less trivial if you’re using a phone or desktop. In either case it’s extremely trivial.
  
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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  But in an age of smartphones, I have to manually add double spaces at the end of every line for the end product to display as it appears when editing it.
  
  They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t make markdown work for my specific use case??
  
  Canned laughter
  
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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Maybe markdown-friendly keyboard apps exist for your phone?
  
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