From 8a75d75d833f1628cd01f84d2f04824cc1ee8a76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zephyrkul <zephyrkul@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:12:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add `quote()` function to chat formatting utilities (#4425)

* add quote to chat_formatting

* ...

* jack's request
---
 redbot/core/utils/chat_formatting.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/redbot/core/utils/chat_formatting.py b/redbot/core/utils/chat_formatting.py
index f4fff6435..e265d348c 100644
--- a/redbot/core/utils/chat_formatting.py
+++ b/redbot/core/utils/chat_formatting.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import datetime
 import itertools
+import textwrap
 from io import BytesIO
 from typing import Iterator, List, Optional, Sequence, SupportsInt, Union
 
@@ -326,6 +327,23 @@ def underline(text: str, escape_formatting: bool = True) -> str:
     return "__{}__".format(text)
 
 
+def quote(text: str) -> str:
+    """Quotes the given text.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    text : str
+        The text to be marked up.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    str
+        The marked up text.
+
+    """
+    return textwrap.indent(text, "> ", lambda l: True)
+
+
 def escape(text: str, *, mass_mentions: bool = False, formatting: bool = False) -> str:
     """Get text with all mass mentions or markdown escaped.