# Highlight parts of a post that have been quoted in a reply

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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/highlight-parts-of-a-post-that-have-been-quoted-in-a-reply/39097/27 "2017-06-05T14:32:28Z")

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All of these are plugin territory.

As for…[quote=“tophee, post:26, topic:39097”]  
whether you’d be willing to support a plugin in core should it be required  
[/quote]

The answer to that is usually yes unless the changes required are really intrusive.

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