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I think you can achieve that with 2 spaces at the end

• Aardwolf 7y ago
  Yes, but, my gripe is how markdown breaks standard plain text behavior, without requiring extra formatting (those two spaces). They should have required the extra formatting for the opposite case, if you want to break a line in your code for some reason but not in the final result. Confusingly those two spaces also don't work in hacker news comments while some other markdown features do. If it was like plain text, with a few ascii symbols used for formatting (like *, _, ...), it'd have been more fantastic than now. BBCode is better imho.
  • tobylane 7y ago
    The backslash\ may qualify, and it’s part of the standard.
  • jachee 7y ago
    > while some other markdown features do. The only two markdown features afaik that work on HN are italics with asterisks and code blocks with 4 spaces. That's it.
• ilammy 7y ago
  > 2 spaces at the end I prefer just plain "<br/>" because it does not mess with my editor configuration, which otherwise I have to constantly tweak between "strip all whitespace at the end of line" and back.