Having to scroll down and hunt for a post that you were just reading, just to select text, after hitting reply is burdensome when you have to perform this operation frequently. Justified by others via:
Enhancement request:
(The red highlighting is mine.)bejant wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:04 am
... to quote only a portion, like I just did in this reply:That copies the text you selected onto the area where you compose your reply, along with some other data that will make up the text you quoted.
- Click the Reply button,
- Scroll down and swipe (select) the text you want to quote,
- Go to the top of the post that has the text you just selected,
- Click the button with the quote symbol at the upper right of that post.
The above is suboptimal for the user for frequent use, because:
- When first starting a post, I have to first reply and then scroll down for the post that I was just looking at.
- The current quote button, , quotes the entire post unconditionally, which always requires me to edit out irrelevant detail.
- User scrolls down to a post that contains a part of text they desire to quote.
- User selects that text, which is some subset of the entire text.
- User clicks the quote button, .
- The web page notices that text is selected, and inserts the text into a quoted text into the reply. This should work even if the user has already started an existing reply, by inserting it into that existing reply wherever the cursor happens to be located (this I think is pre-existing behavior, but not the "page notices that text is selected" part which is the suggestion).
(Side-note: I would have thought there should be a forum about the forum behaviour itself, but I only found Open Discussion. If this is not the correct place to post this, then I request a moderator to move it accordingly).