Support \\n as linebreak (via extension)

[MGChecker]

For example in GitHub or Gitea,
a single backslash at the end of the line leads to a line break. It would be nice if it would be possible to make Python-Markdown behave like this as well, since it declutters syntax in comparison to <br /> (and is more visible than ).

[waylan]

Have you tried the nl2br extension?

If you need different behavior, then you are free to create your own third-party extension. We will not be adding any new (builtin) extensions.

[facelessuser]

EscapeAll Is an extension that enables escaping any character (within reason of what is allowed by the parser). It has an option to allow escaping newlines and have them insert <br>. If you only need <br>, I'm sure you could write an extension that just does that.