2w ago

TIL to add two spaces behind a line to write multi line comments on lemmy without whitespaces between them.

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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 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.
- 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.
  
  Same, I actually do three spaces if you count the full-stop. (I didn't count it)
- 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.

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- Doing the Lord's work
- Still works better when encased with code block stuff,

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
  
  #IKR

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.

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

Reddit was like that too.
Because the line break in markdown is two spaces.
Markdown is pretty great to work with.

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 :)

A simple search for lemmy markdown would tell you all the different textual options for a clean Lemmy comment/post

Oh
My
\ God
\ This is awesome

test
test
test
FUCK YEAAAAAHHH

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

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!

It fights with some autocorrect (autoinsert?) of adding a period and deleting one of those spaces in some OSs. (depends on how rapid you type your spaces)
- I hate that feature. It wastes more time than it saves.
  
  I feel the same.
  
  There is usually a setting you can change to disable that

I always defaulted to a bullet list.
No more

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
  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
- 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

Ok this was awesome. I wondered what I was doing wrong.

- Aww sad :( Which client is this?
  
  Voyager (web, mob)

Test
Test
Test test
test
test
edit: I still did not understand how to do it, I feel so dumb
- Line 1<space><space><newline> Line 2
  Line 1
  Line 2
  
  OH
  I was adding the spaces after the new line
  Thanks

Test
Test
Test

Neat.

Hey I posted this super secret hack yesterday or the day before here on Lemmers in a comment.

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

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?

Yes. It's markdown. It's useful. You should read up on the basics.

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