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I know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here

• Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
  • dickeytk 7y ago
    It doesn’t indent
    • Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      Why is this a problem? Visually, it's very clear what is and is not a quote.
      • dickeytk 7y ago
        So that it’s more clear? and supports multiple paragraphs Do you indent your code? Or are the curly braces enough?
        • Wowfunhappy 7y ago
          ...clearly we're not going to agree on this. Yes, I indent code, but—while I've never thought about this before—I actually think using carrots could work equally well! I'd add one carrot per ident level to the start of every line. Back to quotes, for multiple paragraphs, I just add a ">" to the start of each paragraph.
          • quietbritishjim 7y ago
            I totally agree with you, but FYI they're called "carets". Much as I like the idea of carrots in comments :-)
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    • dngray 7y ago
      > It doesn’t indent I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see. Though it should be: > "It doesn’t indent" • https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quotation-marks/ https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot... • https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotation-marks-or-italics-for-written-quotes https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotat...
      • dickeytk 7y ago
        Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
        • bradknowles 7y ago
          It may do that on the web, on a desktop machine. That’s not what happens on mobile.
          • dickeytk 7y ago
            Am I not understanding something? https://imgur.com/gallery/QEgymrZ https://imgur.com/gallery/QEgymrZ
  • romwell 7y ago
    > I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? Depends on how you, um, use the carrot. I'd recommend eating it, but there are many other ways it could bring joy. In the context of quoting, using a caret (this symbol: ^) is not common, with the exception of saying THIS^. The ">" symbol is officially known as the "greater-than sign"[1]. That's the one you probably meant. </typography nerd mode> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign