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Reply quotation on kmail

Posted Feb 26, 2004 9:47 UTC (Thu) by xyz (subscriber, #504)
Parent article: The Next Generation of Mail Clients

One interesting feature in kmail is the ability to select only some text
you want to quote.
You select it in the original message and then ask for
a reply. Presto, only the selected text is quoted.

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Posted Feb 26, 2004 15:22 UTC (Thu) by kreide (subscriber, #4708) [Link]

This feature can also be somewhat annoying as I frequently mark some text, switch to another window for pasting it (e.g. doing a Google search) and then return to reading the mail. When I hit reply only the marked text will be quoted. This is a small annoyance, however, and I agree it deserves mention.

Reply quotation on kmail

Posted Mar 4, 2004 14:18 UTC (Thu) by bilou (guest, #19959) [Link]

> This feature can also be somewhat annoying as I frequently mark some text,
> switch to another window for pasting it (e.g. doing a Google search) and
> then return to reading the mail. When I hit reply only the marked text will
> be quoted.

What would be cool is a "reply with selected text as quote" menu entry in the context menu when you right-click on the selected text.