That's interesting. Thunderbird has been doing this for a while, and I love it.
KMail has this as well and it can be deactivated.
I really don't know what the big deal about this is or why an article about it has so many points here.
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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#92Is there a way in GMail (and Reader) to set a unread item as read ? It drives me crazy ...
Yes, just select the emails you want and then click More...Mark as read
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same for Apple Mail. I definitely don't love it: 1. I'm one of those serial overliners which will randomly select text and paragraphs while reading, so half the time I end up with a completely useless piece of quoted text. 2. I craft mail responses by quoting all the original mail, interspersing responses and cutting the stuff I don't care for afterwards, very rarely do I only need to quote a single contiguous block…
In apple mail you can actually turn this off! (Settings, bottom of the composing tab.) - another selection reader
As someone who always has to close the original reply, deselect the text and hit reply again, thanks!
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#95I 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.
I'm a habitual selector, but I also have the habit of clicking away from my selection before I perform any other action. Thus never had a problem with this feature.
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#96So many people in this thread are saying they highlight sections of text as they read. I don't do that, and no-one I know does that. What is the benefit? Is it intentional, or is it a habit with no real use?
I do it all the time...just out of habit really but it's one I can never see myself dropping...even in nano on an SSH client :p it makes reading easier for me, I installed flux recently too in order to make the white strain less on my eyes...maybe there's a correlation there?
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#97This makes a good combo with my other favorite Gmail trick: followup.cc
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is in fact a brilliant feature, but the one I like the most is the sending undoing, saved me lots of times. BTW, are you the Google Matt Cutts?
Yes he is.
Thanks! It's actually pretty amazing that in this day and age you interact quite closely to a lot of pretty influential people that some years ago, the equivalent would have been completely un-reachable.
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#99I personally don't like that feature, for I often select a portion of the email (eg a name or an address to google it) and then when I hit reply I notice only the highlighted text remains!
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#100I hate this feature - I always select something when reading, hit reply and then find out it quoted something I randomly selected..