Whitespace and Line Breaks

Paragraphs and line breaks

• Enter starts a new paragraph.
• Shift+Enter starts a new line in the same paragraph.

In the Markdown, a hard line break is two spaces at the end of a line, \ at the end of a line, or <br/>.

Settings

Settings ▸ Control ▸ Whitespace and Line Breaks, and Edit ▸ Whitespace and Line Breaks:

Setting	Default	Effect
Show Line Break Marks	On	Shows a mark at each hard line break
Preserve Single Line Break	On	Keeps single line breaks when rendering
Preserve Sequential Blanks	On	Keeps repeated and leading spaces

These settings affect the editor. Other Markdown tools, and exports, follow the usual rules: a single line break and repeated spaces collapse. Use a hard line break or   when you need one to survive.

Indentation

Settings ▸ Control ▸ Indentation has Indent Size and Indent First Line of Paragraph.

Line endings

Settings ▸ Control ▸ Saving ▸ Default Line Ending keeps the file's own, or uses LF or CRLF. Edit ▸ Line Endings changes them for the current document.