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.

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    6 months ago

    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 once

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        6 months ago

        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.

        so not

        like this

        instead

        like this

        formatting on lemmy is frankly bad, at least documentation of