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but why isn’t it “fixed”?

Because it is useful to many people in certain contexts. It’s not a bug. It truly is a feature. Not something to be “fixed”.

You may prefer your ice cream strawberry flavored, but that doesn’t mean any ice cream that is instead chocolate flavored is “defective” and needs to be “corrected” or “fixed” to make it strawberry flavored.

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blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It can help to give an analogy. But in this case it would be more clear if you would demonstrate the usefulness of this feature by explaining why a user wants to prefer to hit enter and not get any result, instead of hitting enter and getting a newline.

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- TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  lemmy.world/post/49360492/24735359
  
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  hit enter and not get any result
  
  You mean “hit enter and have it not affect the rendered output.” It does produce a result. It makes it appear/act differently in the editor. That’s not “not getting any result.” Just “not getting any result” that’s visible in the rendered output.
  
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  - blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Why would a user want a different appearance in the editor compared to the final result? This is a discussion platform, not a code editor.
    
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