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I'm using the markdown editor GUI on PieFed.

A comment I wrote looked OK on PieFed, despite me having doubts because I didn't add spaces at the end of lines to force line breaks.

Today I saw it in Mlem, and line breaks were as expected, not as I've seen them on the PieFed web UI. On Lemmy, they are the same as in Mlem.

PieFed: https://piefed.zip/comment/2945722

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Lemmy: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/51439392/22823110

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Mlem shows it like Lemmy. No screenshot necessary.

Summary: In Markdown, you need to add 2 or more spaces at the end of a line to force a line break. I didn't do that. A client app and a Lemmy instance show the text correct without a line break. PieFed adds a line break.

Update: I'm terribly sorry for using the word “standard” in a non-standard way. I mean this: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p

Update 2: Created issue #1524.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 months ago

Unsure if PieFed is the same, but double space in my instance adds a simple line break, while double enter adds a blank line between paragraphs. And in both cases, they need to be added manually. Maybe it's a similar situation on PieFed instances?