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		mst on Oct 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bad Emacs defaults The one issue with this is for things like markdown where a code block is space-indented - if you want an empty line as part of the code block rather than two code blocks then you need a line that contains -only- the indentation. I would expect that emacs being emacs it's trivial to configure such lines to be left alone when relevant, but it's worth remembering that the edge case exists.

ceving on Oct 11, 2023 [–]

I never use indent in markdown. I always use ~~~. This makes copy/paste much easier.

pmontra on Oct 11, 2023 | [–]

I use

  ```
  code
  ```

of course as first characters of lines. It appears indented here on HN.

I didn't know about the triple tilde.

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