Document the basic markdown formatting supported in comments Say which formatting elements are supported by the SafeHtml class and add an anchor to that section for easier reference. Block quotes actually may start with " > " or "> ", but align on the latter which is both a substring of the former and better matches the list item start sequence. Change-Id: If8a0c1d8d8a23267495230c1db48f31836326e8a 
diff --git a/Documentation/user-review-ui.txt b/Documentation/user-review-ui.txt index 80b14eb..55bc0cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-review-ui.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-review-ui.txt 
@@ -595,8 +595,12 @@    Clicking on the `Reply...` button opens a popup panel.   +[[summary-comment]]  A text box allows to type a summary comment for the currently viewed -patch set. +patch set. Some basic markdown-like syntax is supported which renders +indented lines preformatted, lines starting with "- " or "* " as list +items, and lines starting with "> " as block quotes (also see replying to +link:#reply-to-message[messages] and link:#reply-inline-comment[inline comments]).    Note that you can set the text and tooltip of the button in  link:config-gerrit.html#change.replyLabel[gerrit.config]. @@ -653,7 +657,7 @@  reply icon in the right upper corner of a change message. This opens  the reply popup panel and prefills the text box with the quoted comment.  Then the reply can be written below the quoted comment or inserted -inline. Lines starting with " > " will be rendered as a block quote. +inline. Lines starting with "> " will be rendered as a block quote.  Please note that for a correct rendering it is important to leave a blank  line between a quoted block and the reply to it.   @@ -822,7 +826,7 @@  Clicking on the `Reply` button opens an editor to type the reply.    Quoting is supported, but only by manually copying & pasting the old -comment that should be quoted and prefixing every line by " > ". Please +comment that should be quoted and prefixing every line by "> ". Please  note that for a correct rendering it is important to leave a blank line  between a quoted block and the reply to it.