Some time around 08/08/2004 10:38:52, I think I heard Thomas Fernandez say:
DJ>> You mean, "now" as in v2.13, the version you are using?
DJ>> Because at least on my version, v2.12, it does not do that; you
DJ>> still have to hit F4.
> You will have to tell TB somehow that you want to create a reply; the
> alternative is that a reply will be automtically created (editor
> window opened) when you release the mouse button after highlighting.
> That can cause problems, as you want to finetune the quotation.
Hum... I see that you do not understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example,
and for convenience's sake, I will use Eudora, which offers the feature we are
discussing:
In Eudora, I can check an option in the configurations that will allow
selective-quoting when replying or forwarding. So the following occurs:
1. I open a message to read it.
2. I select a relevant piece of the text
3. I hit the *standard* reply or forward buttons, *not* a special hot-key, or other
function, but the regular buttons.
4. Eudora will create a new message, like normal, but instead of quoting the entire
text, it will quote and include *only* the selected text.
The difference in TB! is that hitting the Reply/Forward/Redirect/Reply-to-All buttons
while selecting text will result in TB! replying/forwarding/redirecting/etc. the
message with the ENTIRE text quoted, as normal; and in order to invoke
selective-quoting you have to use a *special* function, the F4 hot-key.
This is fine, but what we are requesting is a feature (optional, of course) that you
can automatically have this F4 behaviour occur with the normal reply/fwd/redir buttons.
> I don't understand what you are saying. OK, so in Eudora, you select
> text in an incoming message. But then you will have to tell Eudora
> what to do with the selection: reply, forward, redirect?
You tell it by clicking the normal reply/forward/redirect buttons. But with the
configuration option, you have told Eudora that *ANY* message operation
(reply/fwd/redir/etc.) will invoke selective-quoting by default. See above comment.
DJ>> Eudora offers this as an option in its configuration. Maybe TB!
DJ>> could do the same? :)
> I think TB does it, doesn't it?
It does offer selective-quoting, but as a "special" function, initiated by the F4
hot-key, not integrated with the "normal" reply/fwd/redir buttons, which is what we
are requesting.
I hope this clears it up a bit. :)
dZ.
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