So I'm using an Etherpad hosting service that lets me configure it through a web GUI that writes values to a settings.json file (which I can't directly edit). I want to set the DEFAULT_PAD_TEXT variable to something including a newline. The settings file clearly documents how to do this using the standard "\n" escape. But the web GUI escapes the backslash before writing the value to settings.json, resulting in "\\n" in the value and "\n" in the output. Workarounds?
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I got a long detailed email from PikaPods within a few hours of reporting this thanking me for the bug report and confirming that there is currently no way around this problem on their service. Clearly developers are still answering support questions.
This is also a bug in the Etherpad admin page. I will file some bugs and then use a one line default pad text that links to a longer pad.
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