[Pmwiki-users] beginners figh - linebreaks - usabilty

[Patrick Ogay]

 > f..  Use \\ (two backslashes) at the end of a line to force a line break
 > There is some unexplained magic going on here only those with intimate
 > [..]After all, why use \ when you can delete the newline?

I'm wondering why a "linebreak" in a textarea (in pmwiki and other SW)  
is not converted to a linebreak (as <br\>.
I my opinion, that would be much more intuitive and userfriendly.

Is it a question of crossplatform compatibility? (LF,CR..)  as the 
target platform is not necessarily known.
An idea might be, to convert a "linebreak":  to \\"linebreak" after 
"Enter" the first time.

pog