lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 4 +++-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 3bb385376ba9d481bbc877fe340ab45b0a433055..3695bb2aafe8bc54a6e292aa28b52adea092e13c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@
 my $LINK_RE = qr!\b((?:ftp|https?|nntp)://[@\w\+\&\?\.\%\;/#=-]+)!;
 
 sub linkify {
-	$_[0] =~ s!$LINK_RE!<a\nhref="$1"\n>$1</a>!g;
+	# no newlines added here since it'd break the splitting we do
+	# to fold quotes
+	$_[0] =~ s!$LINK_RE!<a href="$1">$1</a>!g;
 }
 
 sub add_text_body_short {