1492:
But THANK YOU for seeing the benefit of being able to select a portion of text to quote. That was one of my two basic suggestions. So I'm thrilled to be heard.
1492:
Hopefully the mods will see my point that a clipboard would make this task SO much easier, plus it's easy to program, and I can't see a downside for the user.
Don't you worry about that - unless a change impacts upon site administration/policy, I'm just one vote like everyone else (alright, jase has power of veto, but he is dictator-for-life, so there has to be some perks that come with all that responsibility <grins>)
One caveat on the multiquoting - that's no longer available once you hit Preview, so the
trick would be to quote all the bits and pieces you want first ... and type your responses too, cos Preview will certainly complain if it's all quote and no text.
The only real benefit you'd be getting from a new copy/multi-copy functionality would be the quote tags, otherwise you could do the same thing with Clipboard history as patchwolf (at least with Windows 10/11) - the problem is you might already have items in the clipboard, or add items twice by mistake ... putting the quoted text into tags in a new post as jase has done is a very elegant solution, as you can edit that, eg: select them in any order, move quotes around, delete them if you've changed your mind and don't want them any more or duplicated them or selected them by mistake - the new post in effect becomes a clipboard/scratchpad for you to organise 'em all first THEN finally copy them out into clipboard and paste them where you will, and you just have to close that once you're done (ie cancel post).
I'd much rather work with what I can see than what's held in computer memory.
BUT definitely like the suggestion to only quote selected text, not the whole post (unless nothing is selected, of course, which means you want the whole lot) - that'd certainly save a bit of deletion after the fact. :>
If it helps, in the remaining 0.01 of the time where I do want to quote a post for offline discussion, I just hit quote and then select the relevant character(s) to convert it off to a Private Message - again, just a couple of clicks.