Markdown Blockquote Action for Mac

Overview

What Markdown Blockquote does

Prefixes each standard or rich-text line with a Markdown blockquote marker, including blank lines, and preserves a trailing line break.

Category	Markdown
Action type	JavaScript
Default result	Replace selected text by default
Internet	Not required

Example

Action and outcome

Markdown Blockquote example
Action	Outcome
Markdown BlockquoteSelected text: First line Second line	> First line > > Second line

Workflow

Use Markdown Blockquote

Follow these steps to add one Markdown quote level to selected lines with ActionClip.

Select the text you want to use.
Choose Markdown Blockquote from ActionClip.
In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

Before you start: No setup required.
Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition

function run(selected_text) {
  const normalized = selected_text.replace(/\r\n|[\n\r\u000B\u000C\u0085\u2028\u2029]/g, "\n");
  const hadTrailingNewline = normalized.endsWith("\n");
  const lines = normalized.split("\n");
  if (hadTrailingNewline) lines.pop();

  const output = lines
    .map((line) => line.length === 0 ? ">" : "> " + line)
    .join("\n");
  return output + (hadTrailingNewline ? "\n" : "");
}