jdev - 2022-12-11

The original intent was that it would be a quoted :( because it simplifies parsing for reasons that don't really matter (it lets you do >> and have it be a nested quote instead of having to do > > whatever)

But yah, the text is confusing on re-reading it, my bad

Though I think technically correct (the best kind of correct).

so its a quote, i implemented it that way

thanks

Sure; thanks for pointing that out, I'll see about drafting a slight tweak to the text that clarifies it

If you're doing an implementation, I've got a big JSON file full of unit tests somewhere you're welcome to borrow

my impl is old and works, according to spec, as we just found out :D

a user thought this must be a bug

Yah, in retrospect maybe that one would have been better with the space and just make the parsing slightly more complicated to allow >>

for quoting the styling xep is only a bad workaround

I think it's useful for quotes you type, eg. I copy/paste things out of a newspaper article, but for quoting other messages there should be something complementary

complimentary, even

hm yeah true never thought of that

sometimes you need to quote something which is not another message

though these things will usually not start with a angry smiley

Or eg. you press the block quote button on your clients toolbar. But yah, if you right click another message and hit "quote" I think that's something else

I mean, you could obviously implement that second thing with this, but I don't think it's what users expect

Sam follow up question

can a message consist of a single line that is a quote

because technically someone could argue this is not allowed

> They are terminated by the first new line that is not followed by a greater-than sign, or the end of the parent block (whichever comes first).

there is no newline, and also no parent block

which would also mean, a quote can never end a message

There is a "root" empty parent, unsure if that is also underspecified or not because I'm not at my desk, but I think it says that everything is always in a block somewhere

nah sorry cant find that, you may add this to the list of things to improve

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