logoalt Hacker News

HarHarVeryFunnytoday at 7:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Neat!

If I use your tool and "Copy HN-ready" and paste here then it works, but oddly if I then edit the post the formatting is lost.

Also, if I just manually post, starting with a blank line, followed by a couple of lines starting with two spaces (e.g. " aaa", " bbb"), then I'm not getting the <pre> code formatting. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?


Replies

Krysophtoday at 8:27 PM

.

  I think HN strips starting blank lines,
  but it may work when done after a line with some char like: .
edit test:

         0 ┤ ╭───╮ Homer made burger
           │ │ ● │ ╭───╮ McBurger
         2 ┤ ╰───╯ │ ○ │  ╭─────╮
           │       ╰───╯  │  *  │ Food truck burger
         4 ┤              ╰─────╯
           │
           │                         ╭─────╮
         6 ┤                         │  ■  │ this was edited btw
           │                         ╰─────╯                   ╭─────╮
         8 ┤                                   Hairport burger │  ▲  │
           │                                                   ╰─────╯
        10 └┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬
           $0           $8          $16          $24         $32          $40
Works fine for me, even after multiple edits the formatting stays the same ¯\(ツ)/¯
show 1 reply
HarHarVeryFunnytoday at 8:45 PM

foo

  aa
  bb