Quick quoting

[mross]

If you click and drag to highlight part of someone's post, a bubble appears that says, 'quote this'  When you click on it it opens a new quote post all ready to add your biting sarcasm!.  This is much easier if you want to quote only part of a post.

Edited February 27, 2017 by mross

[Athy]

7 minutes ago, mross said:

If you click and drag to highlight part of someone's post, a bubble appears that says, 'quote this'  When you click on it it opens a new quote post all ready to add your biting sarcasm!.  This is much easier if you want to quote only part of a post.

I just tried. It didn't. This is no surprise to me (because if my computer ability, I mean). If I want to quote a selected part of a post, I quote the whole thing and then delete the bits which I don't want.

I'll accept your word for it regarding the addition of biting sarcasm, as such mordancy is of course outside my experience.

[mross]

It doesn't work when quoting one's own posts.

Edited February 27, 2017 by mross

[David Mack]

14 minutes ago, mross said:

If you click and drag to highlight part of someone's post, a bubble appears that says, 'quote this'  When you click on it it opens a new quote post all ready to add your biting sarcasm!.  

So it does!  That's neat.

[cuthound]

26 minutes ago, mross said:

If you click and drag to highlight part of someone's post, a bubble appears that says, 'quote this'  When you click on it it opens a new quote post all ready to add your biting sarcasm!.

Even works on an Android tablet. 

 

Thanks Mr Oss. 

[BruceinSanity]

That's the first seriously useful new feature I've seen. Thanks 

[WotEver]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

... such mordancy is of course outside my experience.

Now you've gone and made me look up a word...

[DHutch]

On 27/02/2017 at 12:07, mross said:

 This is much easier if you want to quote only part of a post.

Oooo, that is nice. Good find.

Daniel

[Rob-M]

On 27/02/2017 at 12:34, cuthound said:

Even works on an Android tablet. 

 

Thanks Mr Oss. 

Doesn't do it on my Android tablet, I just get the cut and paste menu appear.

[Mac of Cygnet]

On ‎27‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 13:17, Athy said:

highlight part of someone's post, a bubble appears that says, 'quote this'  When you click on it it opens a new quote post all

So it does! Trouble is, Athy didn't say it.

[Athy]

50 minutes ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

So it does! Trouble is, Athy didn't say it.

What do you mean? I said that, for me, it didn't do that.

[WotEver]

8 hours ago, Athy said:

said that, for me, it didn't do that.

Ooohh... even works on a phone. Cool

[mross]

6 minutes ago, WotEver said:

even works on a phone

Windows phone? 

[WotEver]

Just now, mross said:

Windows phone? 

Iphone. 

[mross]

Ah, I see.  So, we android phone users are the only ones who can't use this.

[WotEver]

15 minutes ago, mross said:

android phone users

Here's me trying it with an Android tablet for you and that works? Perhaps it's a specific phone that has the problem? 

[MtB]

How do you click and drag on a touch screen mobile?

[WotEver]

3 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

How do you click and drag

Select a word by pressing on it then drag the highlight along. Works for selecting odd words to select bold too. 

[rusty69]

32 minutes ago, mross said:

Ah, I see.  So, we android phone users are the only ones who can't use this.

Works on my android phone. 

Edited March 2, 2017 by rusty69

[cuthound]

5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

How do you click and drag on a touch screen mobile?

Hold your finger over the text. The cut & paste arrows appear.

Move them to the extremities of the text you want to quote.

Hold your finger over the highlighted text and a black "quote this" bubble appears.

Press it and the text magically appears in the text box.

[mross]

2 minutes ago, cuthound said:

Hold your finger over the text. The cut & paste arrows appear.

Move them to the extremities of the text you want to quote.

Hold your finger over the highlighted text and a black "quote this" bubble appears.

Press it and the text magically appears in the text box.

 

I can't get this to work on my Android phone.  Nothing happens, after highlighting some text, when I tap or tap and hold on the highlighted text.  

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, mross said:

happens, after highlighting some text, when I tap or tap and hold on the highlighted text.  

It only works on my android from within the thread. 

[mross]

2 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

only works on my android from within the thread. 

I got it to work, but can you explain, 'within thread' ?

[rusty69]

5 minutes ago, mross said:

I got it to work, but can you explain, 'within thread' ?

Yes. It only works on my phone when within the tread, not the front screen showing the expanded view of all recent threads. 

[mross]

And it doesn't work if you try to quote a quote!  Unless you do a second tap outside the quote box.

Edited March 2, 2017 by mross