The discussion is about improving the quote reply button to work similarly to GitHub’s quotes. Three main feature requests were proposed by Nikolas_Everett:
Allowing the r key to activate the quote reply button when it appears.
Inserting the quote at the bottom of the reply rather than where the cursor is.
Enabling the quote reply button when triple-clicking on the last paragraph of a conversation.
cpradio and zogstrip confirmed that the issue with the quote reply button not appearing when triple-clicking on the last paragraph of a conversation exists across different operating systems and browsers.
However, there are differing opinions on where quotes should be inserted. zogstrip and codinghorror prefer quotes to be inserted where the cursor is, while Nikolas_Everett suggests inserting them at the bottom of the reply. sam mentions that the default behavior was changed from inserting quotes at the bottom to inserting them where the cursor is to maintain parity with uploads, but suggests that a user preference for this behavior could be supported via a plugin.
Any time you pop up the quote reply button let me push the r key activate it.
Put the quote at the bottom of my reply rather than where my cursor is. I’ll often leave the cursor in some random spot, maybe in the middle of another quote, while I scroll up to find more of the message to reply to. It’d be nicer to always have the new quote generated at the bottom. I can move it around if I don’t like it.
If I triple click on the last paragraph of a conversation I don’t get the quote reply button (OSX, but probably also Linux). I have to very carefully just highlight the last paragraph to get the button. It feels like I should be able to do either.
We used to do “quote always inserted at bottom” people got confused, now we have parity with uploads and I think it’s a better default… Maybe I could support a user pref for it, definitely via a plugin