minor change coming (i think) today to fix a major gripe i've seen people have with markdown
yes it's single line breaks
yes it's bringing in a New Age Of Posting so that old posts are unimpacted
yes it's requiring some changes to how Ages Of Posting work internally
full details coming in patch notes
wow!
is this going to be a full "all line breaks are preserved" or more of a "two spaces on the line before aren't required to preserve a single line break, but white space is still generally collapsed"?
(saving these details for patch notes is valid lol, I'm just excited)
the latter! similar behavior to how github works in some areas (i think issues and etc)
THANK YOU this is very useful for comedic timing in my longchosts
Thank you! I'm sorry about complaining so much fjsdklh
Really grateful for all of your work making this website + it's crazy that it even exists
i appear to be the only one who actually prefers the line break handling of markdown. obsidian has an option to keep line breaks and i always have it off
are you considering a way to preserve it for people who are longposting? I want hard breaks for shortposting but not for longposting (I write one sentence per line there.)
there isn't really a good way for us to do this since we don't have a system in place for per-post settings and doing it account-wide wouldn't get you what you're looking for. it's something we can look in to when we do the larger post composer rewrite down the road.
its a bit hacky but if you want a userscript for it: here you go.
// ==UserScript==
// @name old markdown to cohost post
// @author https://cohost.org/lexi
// @match https://cohost.org/*/post/compose
// ==/UserScript==
function md2ch() {
let el = document.querySelector("textarea[placeholder*='post body']")
el.value = el.value
.replaceAll(' \n', '<br>')
.replaceAll(/\n(?!\n)/g, ' ')
.replaceAll(/\n\n+/g, '\n\n')
el.dispatchEvent(new Event('input', {bubbles:true}));
}
let buttonText = `<button class="rounded-lg bg-foreground px-2 py-1 text-text">md2ch</button>`
setTimeout(() => {
let el = document.createElement('div');
el.innerHTML = buttonText;
el.addEventListener('click', md2ch)
document.querySelector('article > header > div')
.insertAdjacentElement('afterend',el)
}, 2000)
I think /\n\n+/g to '\n' is wrong, single line breaks will be line breaks not paragraphs. But thanks 🙏