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I have been trying to fix the formatting. Sorry about that. I just put in two spaces like the formatting guide said. But the whole thing ended being one line.

mikeyouse 13y ago
No worries, the best way I've found to do it is to manually split the lines every 10 words or so. So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
- DanBC 13y ago
  You could include an angle bracket. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Or an angle bracket, with an opening and closing asterisk. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" This means you don't need to include any line breaks.
  - nether 13y ago
    I've added (another) comment to the HN feature requests post asking for a real quote function, so that offtopic discussions like this can come to an end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074
    - krapp 13y ago
      until then feel free to take this for a spin: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736
- Jtsummers 13y ago
  If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs: So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. And your split-by-hand block quote: Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
  - jlgaddis 13y ago
    Vim, FWIW: Visual mode, select the lines, hit ">"
    - Jtsummers 13y ago
      As a Vim newb (well, ok I can use it, but I'm not well-versed in its more arcane elements), how do you select lines? C-<space> in emacs starts region selection, but I've never tried to select anything in Vim.
      - eieio 13y ago
        v starts standard visual(region selection) mode. Shift-v starts line-by-line visual mode. Ctrl-v starts visual column mode(which is both very cool and very useful)
      - judk 13y ago
        http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/ http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/ set mouse=a Or startline,endline command: 10,20d
- 4ad 13y ago
  Just use fmt(1) or par(1).

mikeyouse 13y ago

No worries, the best way I've found to do it is to manually split the lines every 10 words or so. So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!

DanBC 13y ago
You could include an angle bracket. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" Or an angle bracket, with an opening and closing asterisk. > 32. Although I believe foregoing exchange demonstrates DPR's intention to solicit a murder-for-hire, I have spoken with Canadian law enforcement authorities, who have no record of there being any Canadian resident with the name DPR passed to redandwhite as the target of the solicited murder-for-hire. Nor do they have any record of a homicide occurring in White Rock, British Columbia on or about March 31, 2013" This means you don't need to include any line breaks.
- nether 13y ago
  I've added (another) comment to the HN feature requests post asking for a real quote function, so that offtopic discussions like this can come to an end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6484074
  - krapp 13y ago
    until then feel free to take this for a spin: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736
Jtsummers 13y ago
If you're an emacs user, prefix the line with the desired number of spaces then type M-q, copy back into your browser. That's my solution to formatting block quotes at least. Your long line prexixed with 3 spaces in emacs: So a paragraph that would run off the page and break mobile devices in normal circumstances should be broken in several places by a hard 'return' plus more spaces. And your split-by-hand block quote: Is really just a collection of sentence fragments that all fit the same formatting. There might be a better way, but I don't know it!
- jlgaddis 13y ago
  Vim, FWIW: Visual mode, select the lines, hit ">"
  - Jtsummers 13y ago
    As a Vim newb (well, ok I can use it, but I'm not well-versed in its more arcane elements), how do you select lines? C-<space> in emacs starts region selection, but I've never tried to select anything in Vim.
    - eieio 13y ago
      v starts standard visual(region selection) mode. Shift-v starts line-by-line visual mode. Ctrl-v starts visual column mode(which is both very cool and very useful)
    - judk 13y ago
      http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/ http://usevim.com/2012/05/16/mouse/ set mouse=a Or startline,endline command: 10,20d
4ad 13y ago
Just use fmt(1) or par(1).