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Copy editor: rewrap inside quotes, writing each level as Markdown's > - #1466
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Claude Code draws a Markdown quote with a quote bar (U+258E) on every row, nested quotes as one bar per level. The bar sits in Block Elements, so the copy editor read it as box-drawing decoration: a single level was stripped, pasting the quote as unquoted prose, and the inner bar of a nested quote was text that landed mid-sentence once Auto joined its rows. A hard-wrapped Markdown `>` quote had the same flaw from the other side: nothing marked the prefix, so joining its rows left `a > b` behind. A quote prefix is now its own fact of a logical line: one marker per level, `>` or a quote bar, before text. Auto keeps a break where depth changes and judges the rest of a quoted line as if unquoted; every format writes a bar as `>` and drops a prefix with the break deleted before it, so Spaces and per-break overrides follow the same rule. An empty bar line is a blank line inside the quote, not a frame; a lone `>` stays text (an empty prompt). Paragraph scope starts a quoted paragraph at its prefix. The issue's sample also kept two breaks for a second reason: a wrapper that keeps the space it broke at (wrap-ansi with trim: false) carries it onto the row after a full one, which then sits one column deeper than its hanging indent, and the row after that one column shallower. Auto now joins both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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One open question about which ▎ lines count as quotes; see the inline comment.
Neovim's indent-blankline draws `▎`, the bar Claude Code quotes with, at every indent stop and on blank lines inside a block. Any bar before text was a quote, so a guided code line pasted as `> > print(x)` with its indent gone, and a guide alone on a blank line became an empty `>` line. The two differ in spacing: Claude Code writes its bar one space from its text (two where a wrap carried a space), and a guide at a shiftwidth of 3 or more sits further. A quote bar is now at most two spaces from text that is no other marker, and a prefix needs text after it, so a lone bar is decoration again. A leading run of wider guides is now blanked whole, where before only the first was, leaving the inner guides of nested code in the paste. At shiftwidth 2 guides still read as quote bars; the rationale records the trade. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Lines that hold only a bar are now dropped, not kept blank, so a Claude Code quote with more than one paragraph pastes as a single paragraph; see the inline comment.
Round 1 made a line of bars alone frame-only, so it was dropped: a Claude Code quote of several paragraphs pasted as one Markdown paragraph, and code under Neovim's indent guides lost its blank lines. Such a line is either a quote's paragraph break or a guide on a blank code line; its neighbors tell which. It is now blank (and a paragraph boundary), and between two quoted lines it is written with the shallower one's prefix, so the quote goes on past it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Every blank line between two quoted lines now gets a quote prefix, including an empty row that has no bar on it, so two separate quotes paste as one; see the inline comment.
Round 2 wrote the shallower quote prefix onto every blank line between two quoted lines, but a truly empty row is blank too, so two quotes an empty row separates (a Markdown file or email shown with `cat`, or two Claude Code quotes) pasted as one. Only a row of bars alone is now written as a quote line, as the spec already says. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claude Code draws a Markdown quote with a quote bar (U+258E) on every row, nested quotes as one bar per level. The bar sits in Block Elements, so the copy editor read it as box-drawing decoration: a single level was stripped, pasting the quote as unquoted prose, and the inner bar of a nested quote was text that landed mid-sentence once Auto joined its rows. A hard-wrapped Markdown
>quote had the same flaw from the other side: nothing marked the prefix, so joining its rows lefta > bbehind.A quote prefix is now its own fact of a logical line: one marker per level, with text after it — a
>, or a quote bar at most two spaces from its text. Auto keeps a break where depth changes and judges the rest of a quoted line as if unquoted; every format writes a bar as>and drops a prefix with the break deleted before it, so Spaces and per-break overrides follow the same rule. Paragraph scope starts a quoted paragraph at its prefix.The same
▎is the default indent guide of Neovim's indent-blankline, drawn at every indent stop and on blank lines. A guide at a shiftwidth of 3 or more sits further from its text than Claude Code's bar, so it stays indentation; a line of bars alone is a blank line, written between quoted lines with the shallower one's prefix so a quote's paragraphs stay apart; and a leading run of guides is now blanked whole, where before only the first was, so nested guided code pastes with its full indent. At shiftwidth 2 guides still read as quote bars (recorded in the rationale).The issue's sample also kept two breaks for a second reason: a wrapper that keeps the space it broke at (wrap-ansi with trim: false) carries it onto the row after a full one, which then sits one column deeper than its hanging indent, and the row after that one column shallower. Auto now joins both.
Merge before #1475 (#85), which conflicts in
copy-text.tsandmouse-and-clipboard.mdand gets rebased after this lands.Fixes #22
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