facebook/lexical

Feature: support empty line in markdown

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#4,838 opened on Jul 28, 2023

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Description

In https://playground.lexical.dev/ if you enter multiple line breaks and toggle markdown twice. The empty lines will be eaten.

I checked the code https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexical-markdown/src/MarkdownImport.ts#L80-L81 and I guess it's not implemented?

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Inspect the MarkdownImport.ts file, specifically the handling of paragraph nodes and line breaks, to understand why empty lines are not preserved. Modify the import logic to create empty paragraph nodes for consecutive line breaks.
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