Does anyone know of a way to select multiple passages to be quoted automatically? A control+click/drag if you will?
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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#12Most 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.
I bottom-post all the time when emailing certain (tech-savvy) individuals. Makes it much easier to reply point-by-point.
However, bottom-posting's value is lost on the vast majority of people, so I don't bother unless it's someone I know will appreciate it.
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#13This is a horrible misfeature.
Often, I select bits of an email, to copy and paste elsewhere to check things. Then I hit reply, and wonder why only the currently selected text is there.
There should be a way to turn this "feature" off.
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#14the issue i have with this is that it deletes all previous messages from the email thread. So if someone wants to read back through previous messages or forward the email onto someone who does - no es posible.
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#15I'm confused why this is on the top of the front page.
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#16I 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 often select a paragraph I am reading in case I get sidetracked or have to tend to a child nearby. It bugs the hell out of me when something got in the way of me selecting a paragraph!
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#17the issue i have with this is that it deletes all previous messages from the email thread. So if someone wants to read back through previous messages or forward the email onto someone who does - no es posible.
conversely, this is one of the main reasons i use this feature.
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#18That's interesting. Thunderbird has been doing this for a while, and I love it.
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 of text without anything else, unless the single contiguous block of text is "all of the original mail" anyway.
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#19I love this feature, and have been using it for a while.
Off topic, but a similar feature exists in Pinboard (https://pinboard.in). You can select some text on the page before clicking bookmark, and that gets set as the description of the page in the bookmark. It's a pretty handy feature if the page title is not enough to describe what the page is about.
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#20I tried using this feature in Apple Mail for a few weeks before turning it off because it was super annoying (I found it annoying for the same reasons mibbitier did).