> It would be bad if all comments with long lines would show up with scroll bars. No it woulnd't, more newlines (by not ignoring single newlines) would make li

> It would be bad if all comments with long lines would show up with scroll bars. No it woulnd't, more newlines (by not ignoring single newlines) would make lines shorter on average, not longer. It should of course auto wrap long lines (and plain text does), horizontal scrollbars suck. So markdown only makes you choose between ignoring your single newlines or preformatted text with horizontal scrollbars but cannot combine best of both worlds? That makes it even worse.