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<div><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">On Mon 2023-04-24 07:46 PM MDT -0600, <jld@jld3.net> wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p dir="auto">In the description below of what I see, I'm going to use plus signs to indicate quoting rather than greater than signs because I think that might be clearer.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Well, that didn't work at all :-) I forgot that I had recently been experimenting with using markdown and that seems to have made a mess of things. Let's try this again:</p>
<p dir="auto">If I have a message that looks like this:</p>
<p dir="auto">+ quote level 1<br>
++ quote level 2<br>
+++ quote level 3</p>
<p dir="auto">And then do "Quote Less" once, it turns into this:</p>
<p dir="auto">+ quote level 1<br>
++ quote level 2<br>
+++ [...]</p>
<p dir="auto">Do it again, and it turns into this:</p>
<p dir="auto">+ quote level 1<br>
++ [...]</p>
<p dir="auto">Again, and it turns into this:</p>
<p dir="auto">+ [...]</p>
<p dir="auto">Not sure what to call this: "collapsing," I guess.</p>
<p dir="auto">There is one oddity here. If the first quoted line is the first line of the message, then nothing I do collapses it. This is the case in your example, so you can try putting a blank line above the one line in your example and try it again.</p>
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