Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen?

Mandyv2@lemmy.world to Lemmy@lemmy.ml – 21 points –

I apologize if this is not right to post here but im not sure where to go with this one as i havent really found an answer myself.

See, heres the thing, as yall surely know when i hit enter on a line once it will not work, it has to be two.

Is that intentional, if so why?

how does one disable that?

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This is how markdown works. There is no way to disable that. This is an old convention from when text editors didn’t wrap lines automatically and enables you to write long paragraphs of text, breaking the lines as it makes sense to you, without creating a paragraph each time.

See the Lemmy help page on markdown or the Markdown Guide.

The “workaround” is to use a backslash to sort of escape the default behavior:

This is line one \
This is line two

Without the code formatting, of course.