Closed notramo closed 2 years ago
samueldr
commented
2 years ago This is actually element being buggy.
See the discussion here:
TLDR: when there is no markdown in the input, element sends the input as plain text. If you use, e.g. *hi* in one of those lines, to force markdown, element will behave exactly as Cinny does.
ShadowJonathan
commented
2 years ago The original Markdown spec describes that newlines should be removed from the input
Could you give me a link to that?
samueldr
commented
2 years ago AFAICT it's not part of the original markdown spec as described in the first post of this issue.
It states that “A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines”, nothing about two spaces to make a newline, which is a common extension from the original spec.
But I feel I need to remind everyone here that cinny is doing things right. It is element that has a buggy behaviour and sometimes sends plaintext messages. When there is markdown formatting other than linebreaks, element will behave differently.
The original Markdown spec describes that newlines should be removed from the input, unless 2 spaces are appended at the end (line break), or more than 1 newlines (new paragraph). However, many applications use a different flavor, e.g. Github, or Element, where every newline is persisted as is. This is useful in instant messaging. Cinny should also preserve these line breaks.
