This is a feedback topic for the design experiment to add a “Copy Quote” button to post quote buttons, which copies the quote markdown to clipboard:
Why add this button?
The normal Quote button that is shown when selecting text within a post will open the composer with the quote markdown prefilled:
This new “Copy Quote” button copies the quote markdown directly to the user’s clipboard. This is useful for when you want to copy the quote elsewhere – to another topic or a chat message for instance – without having to manually copy from the opened composer, which then has to be dismissed afterwards:
[quote="JammyDodger, post:7, topic:285376"]
Possibly a silly question, but what’s the difference between this button and the one I get normally?
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This saves time for users who are constantly using quotes to reference information across multiple areas of the forum.