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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn't it be better to use something more traditional, such as ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HTML is more traditional than \n?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

True, poor choice of phrase.

But I was thnking of something like

#define my_macro does not fit\
on one line