> Completely OT, but when the hell did the asterisk-asterisk denoter for italics become multi-line? I'd say since forever. I don't remember it working differen

> Completely OT, but when the hell did the asterisk-asterisk denoter for italics become multi-line? I'd say since forever. I don't remember it working differently, and I've been around for some time now (old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pygy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pygy)