If I want to quote several lines, I need to add > at the beginning of every line.
This is doable, but not convenient.
Zulip supports “quote” after the trible backticks.
It would be great to have this in commonmarkdown.
```quote
line1
line2
line
What do you think?
No need. Markdown since the beginning has supported being “lazy” with both block quotes and list items:
> line1
line2
line
- line1
line2
line
Thank you for you reply!
If I use this:
> foo
bar
baz
Then it gets rendered as
foo bar baz
I would like to keep the line breaks, like the triple quotes do it.
use-case:
I copy some text from a an email to a markdown chat application.
I want the text to look like a quoted text.
And I want to keep the line-breaks.
Is there already something like this?
If the copy-pasted email is just plain text, and if it is not critical that it renders specifically as a block quote, you can just put it in a code block:
```
line1
line2
line
````
which renders here on Discourse as:
line1
line2
line
You can even add “quote” to the opening triple backticks if you want.
Also, per the CommonMark spec, whether line breaks are preserved in non-code blocks is up to the renderer. For example, in GitHub comments, which are GFM-based and thus a CommonMark superset, line breaks are preserved, including in block quotes. Many CommonMark tools and renderers have this as a user option, e.g. CommonMark.js (see it’s softbreak option), Markdown-it, Typora, etc.
You can also force a line break with \ or two spaces at the and of a line.
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