Marked doesn't work with literal newlines

[OscarGodson]

Re: OscarGodson/EpicEditor#75

Think i figured it out. Marked doesn't know what to do with literal \n like this:

marked('hello  \
world');

I think this is in fact a bug with Marked since in this example, native JSON.parse will convert that and to get it to work with Marked we'd have to go and add \n (the text, not literal) in place of it. What do think?

[chjj]

There is no such thing as literal or non-literal newlines/line-feeds at runtime. Newlines are just bytes at runtime.

Your line feed there is being escaped by the backslash, which is why you're able to (syntactically) create a multiple-line string. A newline is not actually added to the string because it had to be escaped in order to do that. It's just a syntactic feature of javascript.

This is the case anywhere else in javascript too:

var a = 'hello  \
world';
console.log(a);
console.log(a.length);
console.log(a.indexOf('\n') === -1);
console.log(a !== 'hello  \nworld');

[OscarGodson]

Awh, I see, ok thanks!