Soft returns? Someday? Maybe?

I love Bear more than any other similar app, but I can’t help but still wish for this addition.

In regular Markdown, a soft return can be added by putting two spaces at the end of a line before hitting Return. This lets you break lines without creating vertical space, signifying a new paragraph, which is super useful for keeping text organized.

The most popular markdown syntaxes — CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), MultiMarkdown, Pandoc markdown, and Gruber’s original Markdown — all allow for soft returns (through the 2 spaces + Return method) in addition to standard hard returns (just Return).

Likewise, other minimal text editors (Obsidian, Typora, Notable, Zettlr, iA Writer, Byword, MacDown, Ulysses) all allow for soft returns by means of Shift + Return.

Right now, Bear doesn’t support this, so it’s unable to control line breaks without the extra space a new paragraph brings. Adding this feature would give users more flexibility, especially for those of us who like to keep things tight and tidy in our notes.

Thanks for considering this, or for sharing why it’s been intentionally left out of Bear’s functionality set.

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Allowing Soft Returns would also address other spacing issues, like How to bring together a header and a subtitle? - #2 by that_jonasw

Please! Soft returns would be great. It would also let you fix the current “paragraph gap” nonsense within the UI, which should be “line gap” rather than paragraph gap.

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