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I have been at the Midwest Drupal Summit for the past few days, focusing on #D8CX and reducing Drupal 8's technical debt (at least, a tiny bit of it!).

Wysiwyg Linebreaks

My main goal at the conference was to port the Wysiwyg Linebreaks module to Drupal 8. I originally built the module for Drupal 6 while helping the Archdiocese of St. Louis migrate almost 50 separate Joomla-based websites into one organic-groups-driven Drupal site. Their legacy content used linebreaks (rather than markup like <p> and <br /> tags) for paragraphs of text, and when we originally enabled Wysiwyg with TinyMCE, the editor ran all the text together in one big paragraph. The Wysiwyg Linebreaks module fixes that problem by running some JavaScript that adds the required tags when an editor is attached to a textarea, and (optionally) removes the tags when the editor is detached.