Yeah, the line breaks ruin it for me. I don't understand the point of it, either. Poems and the like could easily be handled by a special mode, similar to code

Yeah, the line breaks ruin it for me. I don't understand the point of it, either. Poems and the like could easily be handled by a special mode, similar to code blocks. Are there other situations where forced newlines would be useful? There may be, but I can't think of any. Either way, severely restricting how text – source code – can be organized just to simplify some rare special cases seems like a bad idea. It's a shame, since the rest of it looks really nice.