# Quote Reply popup does not appear in PMs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 26, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845 "2015-03-26T21:05:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![RaceProUK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/raceprouk/32/115844_2.png) [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/1 "2015-03-26T21:05:41Z")

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The pop-up still appears in public topics, just not in PMs; is this intentional?

Issue found on TDWTF; it’s not present on @riking’s test forum, which is running an older version of Discourse.

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### Author: ![thorbjorn42gbf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thorbjorn42gbf/32/115875_2.png) [@thorbjorn42gbf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbjorn42gbf)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/2 "2015-03-26T21:06:24Z")

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I was seconds away from reporting this. Seconds.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/3 "2015-03-26T22:02:37Z")

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Feels like a bug, as the function exists in 1.2.0-beta4. My guess is the latest change around closed topics accidentally broke it in PMs? @eviltrout

> [@Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480):
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> Someone just opened a followup on a closed topic. I wanted to quote one of the post in that closed topic to support why I think the person should not have opened another topic. But… turns out you can select text in a closed topic, but the quote button won’t appear. The editor is also hidden. Of course this makes sense within that closed topic. But it’s not a very uncommon thing to quote from a closed topic into another topic.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/4 "2015-03-27T00:11:02Z")

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I think this is a legit new bug for you @eviltrout

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/5 "2015-03-27T15:51:06Z")

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Thanks for letting me know. It was a case I messed up here, but fixed here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a38360fbd97a622d153c7a538657d9a5116af81](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a38360fbd97a622d153c7a538657d9a5116af81)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-popup-does-not-appear-in-pms/26845/6 "2015-03-27T15:54:58Z")

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