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Ask HN: Can we have blockquote syntax for comments?

7 pointsgomox2 comments

At this point it's become pretty established to use code formatting to quote other users, but it really is a poor solution for that. Lines are not broken correctly and the whole thing is basically unreadable on mobile. Having this very simple feature would greatly improve readability and discussion.

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I use two spaces for code:

  10 Print "Hello"
  20 Goto 10

And I use a > and italics for quotes:

> At this point it's become pretty established to use code formatting to quote other users, but it really is a poor solution for that. Lines are not broken correctly and the whole thing is basically unreadable on mobile. Having this very simple feature would greatly improve readability and discussion.

so it has nice linebreaks and it is clear where the quotation ends.

I do the second version as well, but most people don't, and not having a clear, obvious option means most comments that quote others are unreadable on mobile.

> "There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it."

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