Ability to quote from previous messages

[rockneverdies55]

It would be nice to be able to quote from earlier messages?

It's very helpful feature when referring to something that's said earlier in long conversations...

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[joepie91]

+1

I'm personally a fan of the way a Vanilla forum plugin does it; you select a snippet of text, it pops up a small 'Quote' button right below your selection, and you can click it to quote that specific snippet with the username and such prefixed.

Perhaps in combination with a 'quote' icon for the entire message, in the place where also the edit icon goes. That way you have an easy way to quote both partial and full messages.

[chrisidefix]

also quoting yourself via > should be possible (you can even do this in this chat)

> This is a quote

This is a quote

[sampaiodiego]

a link to quote a message that simply copy the message to "textbox" with the > character, is something easy to do. is it enough? or do you think it should link to the quoted message or something like that?

[rockneverdies55]

@sampaiodiego - as my opinion it can be thought of as 2 steps process. Of course linking quoted texts to the originals would be very nice.
However, if basic quoting functionality is easy enough to implement, then let's get that in asap.
Then later, linking quoted texts to their originals can be done as an additional enhancement.

[sampaiodiego]

ok. I think we may change the pencil edit icon to an 'cog' icon with extra options, like edit, quote.. what you think?

[rockneverdies55]

Sounds very good!..

[joepie91]

Sounds good as initial implementation. I'd still support implementing "selection quotes" at a later point as well, though :)

EDIT: Hmm, do we need a cog icon? You'll rarely want to quote an editable message and vice versa, and it'd introduce an extra click.

[engelgabriel]

We've implemented the basic > quote

So I'll move the issue to a later milestone as it is not a priority now.