arundelo comments on Beginning resources for CEV research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 12 May 2011 03:28:03PM 1 point [-]
  1. Type a space.
  2. Type a letter (doesn't matter which).
  3. Erase the letter.
  4. Type another space.
  5. Press "return".

Steps 2 and 3 are to defeat the auto-complete rule that in certain cases turns two consecutive spaces into a period and one space. The other steps are the same as what you would do on a regular computer.

Note that you should only do this if you are typing a poem or something else where you would use the HTML <br> element. Normally you should use paragraph breaks, which you get by pressing "return" twice, so that a blank line is between the paragraphs (same as on a regular computer).

Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 May 2011 09:53:50PM -1 points [-]

The problem is, I don't think I have a return button? Ah well, it's not a big deal at all. I might try HTML breaks next time.

Comment author: arundelo 12 May 2011 11:30:40PM 0 points [-]

What web browser are you using? I have a "return" button in Safari (on an iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2.1).

I might try HTML breaks next time.

Won't work; the LW Markdown implementation doesn't do raw HTML. (In other words, when I typed "<br>" in my previous comment and this one, I didn't need to do any escaping to get it to show up rather than turn into a line break.)

If you don't mind some hassle, it would probably work to write your comment in the "Notes" app, then copy and paste it.