# Bad user experience when quoting an entire post via toolbar button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-user-experience-when-quoting-an-entire-post-via-toolbar-button/68773>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [25 أغسطس 2017، 1:08م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-user-experience-when-quoting-an-entire-post-via-toolbar-button/68773 "2017-08-25T13:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [26 أغسطس 2017، 12:05ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bad-user-experience-when-quoting-an-entire-post-via-toolbar-button/68773/10 "2017-08-26T00:05:17Z")

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The scenario is that you write some text like this

```plaintext
I remember at some point that codinghorror said
this thing

```

Now, I want to make ‘this thing’ a blockquote, so I select it and click the blockquote ![00](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/5/c5c44d95c68a11f8ea6ee5a1e0badfa6ae5f13c2.png) button in the toolbar.

That will give me

```plaintext
I remember at some point that codinghorror said
> this thing

```

But if I accidently select “this thing”, and then click ![41](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/8/c857b7babb751d9e6be61a18414c5fcffcb960df.png), it replaces whatever I had selected in the composer with the raw text.

That behaviour is not wrong, it’s user error. The point is that it should be possible to undo that user error:

> [@ralight](#):
>
> At this point I realised my error and tried to undo

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