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OT but interesting quote syntax, using the code tag and the |. What made you develop your own quote formatting instead of the standard single angle bracket (whi
by nether 13y ago
OT but interesting quote syntax, using the code tag and the |. What made you develop your own quote formatting instead of the standard single angle bracket (which has precedents in email, Usenet, and Markdown)?
- to3m 13y agoA left-hand vertical bar (one per quote level) is how quoted text appears, visually, in most modern programs.
- pyre 13y agoTo emulate the way that blockquotes show up in most webpages nowadays (offset to the right with a border-left of some sort). I'll note that mutt accepts '|' as a quote character in addition to '>' (for highlighting purposes). If you look through my post history, you'll see that I'm not 100% consistent. Sometimes I use '>'.