Darth Mallwalker said:
Those aren't new paragraphs. They're hard carriage returns which this POS editor misinterprets as paragraphs.

They are new paragraphs.

In written English, new paragraphs begin with indentation or extra spacing above them.
All of our typing would look like this otherwise.
Not very nice to read, is it?
Nope.

The editor creates proper semantic markup with HTML paragraph tags enclosing every new paragraph, which is the way it should be. And because of that, the editor is displaying exactly what your post is going to look like when you post it.

Hold down the Shift key when you press enter/return and you'll get a single new line.

Like.
So.

Why you would want one line after the other, I have no idea.

negative1's posts have crazy spacing because he's hitting return twice for each new paragraph.

Try the latest version of Word. It behaves the same as the editor because new paragraphs are treated differently than new lines; new paragraphs are the default, new lines are an option requiring an additional key press.

And I'm not sure what being a programmer has to do with splitting up your sentences into five-word lines. I'm a programmer, and I write English properly.