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Should only be one line, I didn't see the problem this time around because I had installed this plugin the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2102

Should only be one line, I didn't see the problem this time around because I had installed this plugin the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020162 https://github.com/corollari/fixedHackerNews/blob/master/extension/fixPre.css https://github.com/corollari/fixedHackerNews/blob/master/ext...

xvector 7y ago
This isn't a solution. There's no need to code block quote to begin with.
- mynameisvlad 7y ago
  There is no built-in quote formatting, so code blocking is basically the only way to have it show different. Attribution is important to some, and a proper quote format would help with that.
  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    I don't think there's any formatting that is better than simply prepending quotes with a ">". Formatting may improve such quotes that already begin with ">", but the problem is that people come up with their own inferior solutions instead of simply using ">". For example, some people try to use italics which are hard to see, hard to distinguish as quotes, and don't even render as italic on some of the HN native apps I've used. If ">" was good enough for decades of email and usergroups, it's good enough for HN. No, your quotes in this one post doesn't need anything different or special. What HN needs is a simple formatting-help blurb when writing a post to set people straight once and for all like reddit (or res?) had/has. The first line of it, if I wrote it, would be "Prepend > for quotes, prepend four spaces to format code."
    - leovander 7y ago
      Interesting there was a small Help link[0] next to the text areas for a quick minute, but they have since been removed. This was definitely there in the past month. dang, was that something you were testing? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

xvector 7y ago

This isn't a solution. There's no need to code block quote to begin with.

mynameisvlad 7y ago
There is no built-in quote formatting, so code blocking is basically the only way to have it show different. Attribution is important to some, and a proper quote format would help with that.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  I don't think there's any formatting that is better than simply prepending quotes with a ">". Formatting may improve such quotes that already begin with ">", but the problem is that people come up with their own inferior solutions instead of simply using ">". For example, some people try to use italics which are hard to see, hard to distinguish as quotes, and don't even render as italic on some of the HN native apps I've used. If ">" was good enough for decades of email and usergroups, it's good enough for HN. No, your quotes in this one post doesn't need anything different or special. What HN needs is a simple formatting-help blurb when writing a post to set people straight once and for all like reddit (or res?) had/has. The first line of it, if I wrote it, would be "Prepend > for quotes, prepend four spaces to format code."
  - leovander 7y ago
    Interesting there was a small Help link[0] next to the text areas for a quick minute, but they have since been removed. This was definitely there in the past month. dang, was that something you were testing? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc