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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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[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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