# Quoting from closed topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843 "2016-12-27T20:57:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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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: [December 27, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843/1 "2016-12-27T20:57:56Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480/13):

If I’m currently editing a reply to a thread, I like to browse around the forum to find other quotes. I would then select some text, and click “quote” to add the quote to my current post. This works really well.

However, if I navigate onto a closed topic, and try and quote something from it, I get this message

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/7/7732ef72f81ffcc9e7e3fb597d3995c0364bf4be.png)  
and then if I click ‘Yes’, it deletes what I’ve been working on and does a fresh “reply as new topic”.

I would expect “reply as new topic” to only happen only if the composer is not open

Suspect it is related to this commit:  
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/298098745ee43128b18918b161f9669c04dde212](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/298098745ee43128b18918b161f9669c04dde212)

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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: [December 27, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843/2 "2016-12-27T22:42:29Z")

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I see so this is a bit of a bug @eviltrout that logic should only fire if there is not an editor already open.

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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: [January 3, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843/3 "2017-01-03T18:03:59Z")

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This fixes it, thanks for letting me know:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bee8425055e68601c4baa79987eb9038de04d559](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bee8425055e68601c4baa79987eb9038de04d559)

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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: [January 3, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-from-closed-topic/54843/4 "2017-01-03T18:04:03Z")

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