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I never saw the attraction to Markdown. I especially despised the end a line with two or more invisible characters to insert a line break.

If it wasn't for Github, I probably wouldn't be using it at all. There were so many Wiki markup dialects and a Wiki Creole that could serve as a base to make a more featured popular one.

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It's not my favorite feature by any means but linebreaks are almost always an issue: practically all Markdown-ish or wikitext-ish formats don't give significance to single line breaks to allow hard-wrapping the source without affecting its rendering, which doesn't leave you with many "nice" options for actually doing explicit linebreaks when you do want them.

I've seen ones where you put something like a plus at the end of the line, the spaces from Markdown, or something like MediaWiki's format where you just can't do it without falling back to writing in some explicit HTML.

> I especially despised the end a line with two or more invisible characters to insert a line break.

I love Markdown, but I also hate this. The only benefit is that is discourages people from messing with line breaks.

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