Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?
whaleross@lemmy.world 2 hours agoBecause it is how the format is defined. There is nothing to fix. You write text in paragraphs by default and if you want it to be displayed in any other way you need to declare it. Most formatting is done before the text, like headings and lists, but this newline without a new paragraph is declared with two trailing spaces.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I
declare
it
by
hitting
an
entire
button
dedicated
to
making
a
new
line that
also
makes
a new
line
in
the
editor
I’m
looking at
creating
a
new
line.
It doesn’t make sense from a user perspective, whatever the format is.
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well, you are free to declare your own flavour and try get it supported by whatever editors and libraries you use. Damn, you can make up your own format that works in any particular way you want to. I bet in this time and age you could vibe code it with functions to your heart’s desire.
But bitching about it to people that are trying to be helpful and explain why it is like it is will not render much other result than said people dropping you into their blocklist for being annoying.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 41 minutes ago
Fair. Apologies.
This issue is that you gave me kind of a detailed answer that didn’t really answer my question: What is the BENEFIT of doing it this way in the face of unexpected behavior to a naive user? Two answers others have given are that it allows easier cut-and-paste, and it allows users to break up their text for their own readability on narrower displays while still allowing it to be formatted to fit the final screen.
Speaking of blocklists…