Neat Feature -- click/drag/quote

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Maybe others have known about this feature for a while, but I just discovered it. If you want to just quote part of a post, you can click drag the text you want to copy, and a little "Quote+" box pops up next to the highlighted text! Pretty neat! :)
 
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berkeman said:
you can click drag the text you want to copy
Or just highlight and "Reply". I'm still learning too. Many neat features.

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Yeah one of my favorite features. I remember the old days where you had to sometimes quote a massive chunk of text and then manually in the editor crop it out.

btw, it also works with multiquote. So you can-select-to-quote many things and then insert them into the editor at the end.
 
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Oh, wow! This is going to make my life so much simpler. I've been doing the quote/delete operation all along.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
So you can-select-to-quote many things and then insert them into the editor at the end.

Or you can select-to-reply to several things, one by one, and they each get added to the editor as you go along. No need to "Insert Quotes" at the end.
 
berkeman said:
Testing...

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Testing... Hmm, even for simple stuff, some of the formatting is lost.