Single line break should not be converted to paragraph

Hello, I’ve just installed this converter and I’ve found an issue. How do I prevent single line breaks to being turned into new paragraphs?

Right now writing

Example Text\n
Second Line

gets turned into

<p>Example Text</p><p>Second Line</p>

whereas the result I expect should be

<p>Example Text<br>Second Line</p>

Two consecutive line breaks instead should be turned into a new paragraph.

Any ideas on how I could achieve this?

[jonzlin95]

This should be the default behaviour. However DraftJS out of the box doesn’t ship with
handling of newlines like you’d expect. The default is a new paragraph (which mirrors Microsoft Word etc.). Try this in your Editor

  handleReturn(e) {
    const { editorState } = this.state;
    if (e.shiftKey) {
      this.setState({ editorState: RichUtils.insertSoftNewline(editorState) });
      return 'handled';
    }
    return 'not-handled';
  }

<Editor
    handleReturn={this.handleReturn}
/>

[bengotow]

Hey — thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I’m using DraftJS-convert in the Mailspring email client so I probably have unusual goals—basically need to get HTML that exactly visually matches what the user typed so the editor seems WYSWIG. Here’s the config I ended up using which (at least so far) seems to maintain whitespace reliably and still be read back into DraftJS correctly via convertFromHTML:

    blockToHTML: block => {
      switch (block.type) {
        case 'unstyled':
          if (block.text === ' ' || block.text === '') return <br />;
          return <div />;
        case 'paragraph':
          return <p />;
        case 'header-one':
          return <h1 />;
....