Don't lots of other email clients do this too?
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#132So does Apple Mail. So, when I used that feature in Gmail, I wasn't really surprised and actually expected it to be there.
Similarly, BufferApp post with the selected text instead of the title.
This is indeed a good UX feature and people should use this where it make sense - select text and put it in context with the next action.
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#133In a related note, I hate how Google promotes top posting even when I select a specific quote.
Huge annoyance. It got much worse with an update I received about a months ago. The quoted text is by default collapsed so when you want to reply quickly to someone, you won't even notice you're top-posting.
I tried to contact support or fill some feedback form to no avail. I eventually gave up.
Anyway, this is how web apps ride (no a single day passes without me ranting about the current trend, which I find alarming).
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#134My favorite feature is Mute.
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#135Best Gmail feature is "Undo Send" - period. It has saved me embarrassment countless number of times.
No contest for "Undo send"; but lets be honest; in almost all applications undoing is the most used feature.
Yeah but undoing sending something to someone as opposed to editing a text file feels like pure magic, not to mention the fact that the undo link is right up there in front of you after you have clicked Send.
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#136I've been using this feature for ages, but it got much worse about six months ago when the last message in a thread became automatically "focused". Now when I scroll up in a thread and select some text, the message I'm selecting text from doesn't automatically get focus. I have to click one extra time to get focus on the message I'm selecting. Even after half a year, I still forget the extra click in about 20 emails per day, making the reply go to the last message in the thread, with the entire thing quoted. To recover, I have to discard my new message, scroll back to the thing I wanted to reply to, and repeat the process. I filed a bug report in the first week, but no response and the bug remains.
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#137What if I want to highlight and quote separate paragraphs?
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#138I 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.
The NYT "feature" can/could be disabled at the client by blocking one of their JS files. I still have the block in my config.
P.S. I see now that barrkel has already described this and one way of accomplishing it, elsewhere in this thread:
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#139If you select an area of a message and then hit Reply only the selected text will be quoted in the response.
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#140I 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.
Thunderbird and other email clients do the same. It's pretty handy.