The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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#2That's interesting. Thunderbird has been doing this for a while, and I love it.
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#3I thought most of the email clients did that already and I just checked a few which in fact don't! I'm pretty sure thunderbird does this if you want the same feature on an external application.
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#4And I was about to say "Of course I'm not using this since I don't use gmail" but I use claws, which does this. Personally I would chuck any mouse-using client that doesn't do this.
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#5I do use this feature -- I often select random blocks of text while reading. This feature means I often (5-10% of the time) have to click discard and then reply again to get my desired behavior.
In related news nytimes.com used to have a similar feature where the definition of words would pop up when you selected them. It basically caused me to stop reading their site.
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#6That's the one feature I hate.
I usually read through emails highlighting (selecting) the important parts with the mouse. So when I hit "R", Gmail quotes only my last selection. Discard, unselect, hit R again.
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#7any mail client does that imo.. Mail.app too
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#8Most mail clients seem to do this (maybe not so many web-based ones). Gmail has the problem of creating Tofu:
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#9Wow, great, a condescending title! Fact is, I am using this. It used to be in the settings, I think, which is how I found out about it. And as others have stated, it's in a lot of mail clients. Apple Mail supports this, as does the iOS mail app, too.
"I haven't heard of this feature" != "no one knows about this feature".
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#10Most mail clients seem to do this (maybe not so many web-based ones). Gmail has the problem of creating Tofu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Does anyone care about top posting any more? I feel like I haven't heard the term since my newsgroup days.