Code Formating Tests

Triple spaced:There are two blank lines above this in the original. This line begins with two spaces.Edited by Percy, : No reason given.

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Could I solicit some feedback/suggestions/etc? It requires a little explanation, so don't feel obligated.I'm making a fix to something very minor that I find annoying. If I copy/paste the first two paragraphs of your message, then the blank line between them disappears, like this: But if I copy the last two paragraphs then the blank line is present: The copy/paste of all browsers now works this way, where all blank lines are copy/pasted faithfully except the first one, but they didn't used to until a few years ago. I finally got tired of adding the missing blank line back in manually and decided to fix it.This brought me back to some code I wrote nearly a couple decades ago when I made the decisions that I think you're commenting on. All triple-spacing and quadruple-spacing and so forth becomes double spacing. If you want more than that then you could use  , but it would literally take me no longer than a minute to add a new code, [bl] for example, that would add a blank line. It would take me longer to add it to the doc page. You could then do [bl][bl][bl][bl][bl] to get five blank lines. This: Would produce the same thing as this: But this: Would produce the same thing as this, which is what you have to do now: (An aside: please confirm for me that   only works if you disable smilies. That is what I'm seeing.)But there's something else. The way the reduction of multiple blank lines to double spacing is carried out means that the extra blank lines are lost in the original copy of your message. So if you entered this in your original message text before clicking Submit:

First line
 
 
 
Second line

Then when you went back later to edit your message you'd instead see this:

First line

Second line

I'm wondering if when people edit their messages if it wouldn't be better to give them back the exact original, instead of the original minus the extra blank lines.Any other comments/suggestions welcome.--Percy

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