markdown-no-artificial-line-wraps

Markdown: no artificial line wraps

Instructions

1. Prose paragraphs — Keep each paragraph as one line (or join wrapped lines into one) so the renderer can wrap in the viewer. Do not break lines mid-sentence to stay under ~80 characters.

2. When hard newlines are correct

   • Lists: one line per list item is fine; keep item text on one line unless the item is genuinely multiple paragraphs.
   • Headings: single line.
   • Fenced code blocks: preserve author intent; do not reflow code to 80 cols.
   • Tables, block quotes, HTML: follow normal Markdown rules; table rows may be long.
   • Poetry / intentional line breaks: keep explicit breaks where semantics require them.

3. Links and emphasis — Prefer not splitting a paragraph so that a [text](url) link is alone on a continuation line in a way that obscures reading; the whole paragraph can be one line.

4. Rationale — GitHub and most Markdown renderers wrap to the viewport. Fixed-width breaks in source only help in raw terminals; they harm git diff and merge conflict resolution.

Don’t

• Reformat existing Markdown by hard-wrapping every paragraph to 80 columns unless the user explicitly asks for that style in that file.
• Apply this rule to non-Markdown formats (e.g. .ts comment blocks) unless the user asks for Markdown-style prose there.