Sometimes adding a blank character helps with formatting. For example on Lemmy, it helps me separate lines of text if I insert a blank character between other lines. Currently, do that by copy-and-pasting the blank character from elsewhere. Here is an example
Is there a way I can do this on Linux easily from the keyboard? I am using KDE Neon and have the compose key enabled so that I can easily type uncommon characters like ‽, ñ, and é easily.
Most people don’t seem to know this, but you can in fact do line breaks on lemmy, too:
For each line you want to break
add two spaces to the end of the line
then press enter just oncethank you very much!!
Another one for ya: when quoting block text with the character “>”, put a “>” on the blank lines between paragraphs to continue a single block quote.
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formatting on lemmy is frankly bad, at least documentation of
Is a blank character different from pressing the spacebar?
Yes, but it mostly depends how it’s interpreted by a given program. Some will interpret it as a character being there, but it may take up no space on the screen, for example. Some will show a space, but won’t count it as a space character so it can bypass some text restrictions. Some may show different spacing. Many will also simply not accept them as valid characters.
I’m pretty sure that two end lines will give you the space on lemmy.
Like on Reddit
My go-to would be AutoHotKey on Windows. Maybe this Linux version would work? https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11
Looks like you can get a script that replaces
; hotstrings - expand 'btw' to 'By the way' as you type ::btw::By the way ; hotkeys - press winkey-z to go to Google #z::Run http://google.comYou might be able to use whatever character you’re using instead of
{Space}:F19::{Space}FYI you can “separate lines” by simply adding two newlines by pressing Return twice.
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