I’m sure this has been asked a million times and I have searched for it…but was wondering if I click the reply to post button I can see who I’m replying to, but not the content of the post. Is there any way of making the default behaviour of this button to quote the full message the user is replyin…

Why would you need this? press the quote toolbar button in the editor (it’s the first button in the toolbar) to issue a full quote select the text of the post you wish to quote, then press any reply button (or the quote button that pops up), and that will be quoted Full quotes should genera…

I understand the intention of the quote functionality, but in my forum the users don’t generally make long replies, it’s more like short-form IM conversations of a line or so so there is no danger of huge chunks of the conversation being repeated. They’ve caught on pretty quick to the ‘select to quo…

Rather, is there a way to change the reply button behave like the ‘Quote whole post’ button? As that’s my users’ expectation.

Can 'Reply to post' button display quote of original post?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 24, 2019, 9:04am 4

Just click or tap the toolbar button, as previously indicated. It’s the first one.

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Can 'Reply to post' button display quote of original post?

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