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Is this a rant about typewriters, computer character encodings, or some computer file format?
Why are you getting files with bare CR characters not followed by a LF? (Is this about last millennium Apple computers?)
I think they're talking largely (mostly?) about Markdown. (For instance, in Lemmy, when you stick a newline there, it doesn't give you a line break in the flow of the text.) And when they say "Carriage Return", they don't know what they're talking about. If I'm interpreting them correctly, I think they just mean "newline". And when they say "two spaces", I think they mean two newlines.
Yes, I may not be using the right terminology. The "return" button on the keyboard.
I also gave an example, so I'm not sure why there's so much confusion.
Because it's Markdown it gets confusing. Here is some help. Line Breaks
Because you're not using the right terminology. ;)
Yeah, but if someone said, "I sharpened a steel bowl and used it to cut my steak, and here's a picture of my bowl" and you see a knife, wouldn't you know what they mean?
Maybe it is I that lacks theory of mind.
This is a question about a behavior that the text editor of both Reddit and Lemmy seem to share.
I might be incorrect calling it a carriage return--it's the return button on the keyboard that creates a new line on the editor--I think it's called a line break, but apparently you need two to create an actual new line in the final text. See the other comment for details about how markdown approaches it.
So, it is about markdown.
It's this way because people want to break their editable text into lines without making the final text break paragraphs. People write entire books in markdown, but it does become unsettling when you use in social media comments.