lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 13 +++++++------
 t/feed.t                |  7 ++++++-
 t/view.t                |  4 ++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 84c7393b197131ee01c4ba94935578c0ef51bf29..17aca94e63e1fbfb5aa4668f33be3b2d6e03960f 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use CGI qw/escapeHTML/;
 use Encode qw/find_encoding/;
 use Encode::MIME::Header;
 use Email::MIME::ContentType qw/parse_content_type/;
+use constant MAX_INLINE_QUOTED => 5;
 
 my $enc_utf8 = find_encoding('utf8');
 my $enc_ascii = find_encoding('us-ascii');
@@ -88,10 +89,10 @@ sub add_text_body_short {
 	my ($enc, $part, $part_nr, $full_pfx) = @_;
 	my $n = 0;
 	my $s = ascii_html($enc->decode($part->body));
-	$s =~ s!^((?:(?:>[^\n]+)\n)+)!
+	$s =~ s!^((?:(?:>[^\n]*)\n)+)!
 		my $cur = $1;
 		my @lines = split(/\n/, $cur);
-		if (@lines > 1) {
+		if (@lines > MAX_INLINE_QUOTED) {
 			# show a short snippet of quoted text
 			$cur = join(' ', @lines);
 			$cur =~ s/> ?//g;
@@ -100,10 +101,10 @@ 			my @sum = split(/\s+/, $cur);
 			$cur = '';
 			do {
 				$cur .= shift(@sum) . ' ';
-			} while (@sum && length($cur) < 68);
+			} while (@sum && length($cur) < 64);
 			$cur=~ s/ \z/ .../;
 			"&gt; &lt;<a href=\"${full_pfx}#q${part_nr}_" . $n++ .
-				"\">$cur<\/a>&gt;";
+				"\">$cur<\/a>&gt;\n";
 		} else {
 			$cur;
 		}
@@ -115,10 +116,10 @@ sub add_text_body_full {
 	my ($enc, $part, $part_nr) = @_;
 	my $n = 0;
 	my $s = ascii_html($enc->decode($part->body));
-	$s =~ s!^((?:(?:&gt;[^\n]+)\n)+)!
+	$s =~ s!^((?:(?:&gt;[^\n]*)\n)+)!
 		my $cur = $1;
 		my @lines = split(/\n/, $cur);
-		if (@lines > 1) {
+		if (@lines > MAX_INLINE_QUOTED) {
 			"<a name=q${part_nr}_" . $n++ . ">$cur</a>";
 		} else {
 			$cur;
diff --git a/t/feed.t b/t/feed.t
index 63fcc443143f1f40e7e5463f5181da495c8fbc85..125490d630528cc2b944e88d0bfc92ca21912fe7 100644
--- a/t/feed.t
+++ b/t/feed.t
@@ -31,10 +31,15 @@ Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
 
 > This is a long multi line quote so it should not be allowed to
 > show up in its entirty in the Atom feed.  drop me
+> I quote to much
+> I quote to much
+> I quote to much
+> I quote to much
 
 msg $i
 
-> inline me here, short quote
+> inline me here
+> this is a short quote
 
 keep me
 EOF
diff --git a/t/view.t b/t/view.t
index ef1b74c940c5dc747a677598ec94daefe7d7f6d8..067f9890cc271abc0d1e7195b5d0e823ce677f6d 100644
--- a/t/view.t
+++ b/t/view.t
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ OK
 
 > Long and wordy reply goes here and it is split across multiple lines.
 > We generate links to a separate full page where quoted-text is inline.
+> This is
+>
+> Currently 5 lines
+> See MAX_INLINE_QUOTED
 
 hello world
 EOF