@manton I’m trying to post curious.port111.com/uploads/2024/2024-10-10-leave-ot-off-two-weeks-in.md as a blog post. When I paste it into the text window and preview, it looks reasonable. When posted, all the text is wrapped. It previews fine in another MD tool. Clues? Alternatives? Thanks.

@eludom I just copy/pasted your Markdown into a new test blog post and it’s rendering correctly for me with the links, headings, etc. Is the problem on your blog or in the Micro.blog timeline? For the timeline, it does need a title otherwise it will be truncated and squished together.

@manton blog. Posted with a title. It’s getting squished. curious.port111.com/2024/10/1…​

I pasted into editor, added the title and posted. It’s wrapping.

I think I can upload the .md directly in a .zip file? (I got command line API working a bit ago, not used much)​

@eludom Oh! I think that theme shows the “summary” field. Mind changing the theme and see if that fixes it? If you like that theme there are ways around it, though.

@manton Thanks. What is a theme that does not show the summary? I’ll try it.

@eludom I don’t think any of the other themes use the summary. I recommend trying Sumo or Marfa.

@manton Marfa doing the same thing

curious.port111.com/2024/10/1…​

@eludom Trying Sumo

@eludom Same :-/

@eludom Something seems wrong with the text that is being pasted in. Which platform or app are you using? I checked your blog for the original text and it doesn’t have any return characters in it.

@manton creating .md in emacs on Linux. Copy/paste into editor window. Works if I add ^M after ^J at end of each line. Kinda clunky. I expect I’m not the only Unix user pasting text.
If you’re touching the code for the editor, maybe convert bare ^J to ^J^M with account config option?​ Thanks.

@eludom Sorry about that. I’m sure we can fix it. Another option to try in the meantime is maybe a web app that works with Micro.blog on the web, like quill.p3k.io.

@manton Thanks. May check out quill, but the workflow of copy (in emacs) paste (in micro.blog) is dirt simple and I’ll probably stick to that.

Of course, emacs being emacs, I can probably add a hook, ​macro, minor mode or some such to just always tack ^M on if the file type is .md

@manton Also, FWIW, the lure if writing your own editor is strong. Many of the places I’ve worked going back over 40 years found some excuse to write one. I’ve toyed with a couple, including what became Micro[GNU]Emacs/mg.

@manton FWIW I still have to manually change end of line from “^J” (standard Unix) to “^M^J” (carriage return, line-feed …. MS-DOS/Window’s hold-over standard from the days of typewriters) when I copy and past .md files into the micro.blog editor.

It would be good if the editor did the conversion.

@eludom Thanks, I’m testing this change now and will roll it out today. It at least doesn’t seem to be causing any additional problems to normalize to carriage return, line-feed.

@manton I’m still having issues. Spent a lot of time this moring trying to get a deterministic repeate-by, but it still seems non-deterministic at times.

I /think/ I have to convert “^J” to “^J^M” before pasting into the edit box on the web. It /usually/ works.

Whole posts wrapped sometimes.

@eludom I’m sorry this is still an issue. I thought we had addressed it. I’ll do some more testing!

@eludom @manton I usually post from the micro.bog app on the mac, but also from my linux box as well, especially recently. I use a similar workflow as an Emacs user: org-mode –> md –> copy-paste into the micro.blog text box in the browser (I use Zen right now if that matters). No issues.

@jtr @manton I’ll keep an eye on the behavior the next few posts I put up and see if I can determine any pattern