Diaspora: No way to enter new line character in new posts/comments

[diaspora-redmine-github-migration]

Issue 630 from bugs.joindiaspora.com
Created by: jbk
On Sun Nov 28 16:23:07 2010

_Priority: Normal_
_Status: Rejected_

Trying to enter a newline or a carriage return post your message or comment.

It should be possible to go to the next line (at least for having more than one lines in comments :))

the second problem with the current behaviour is that it's not expected. People reckon they are going to the next line, not getting their message posted as is.

[diaspora-redmine-github-migration]

Comment by: neuromancer
On Sun Nov 28 21:12:09 2010

Duplicated of #620

[robinstent]

This is not a duplicate of the issue linked to and is still outstanding. I think it should be a priority as its a pretty basic usability issue.

[Raven24]

Diaspora is using (mostly unmodified) markdown formatting, you can get a line break by inserting two spaces at the end of a line and then hitting enter

your sentence[space][space][enter]
next line 

[robinstent]

Ok, that explains the problem but doesn't really solve it. If like most people you don't know that and have no idea what markdown is, you'd expect a new line shown in the input to correspond to a new line in the resulting post.

I've now found an open issue on this at:
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/3174

[elyasaf755]

If you wanna paste a code and save all of the spacings, you should use [triple-back-quote][your-code][triple-back-quote]
Where [triple-back-quotes] = ```
For example:

for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i){
   cout << i < endl;
}