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I often write posts in which I quote several different people. What I do now is copy-paste the individual snippets by hand into the text area and manually insert [quote=alice] and [quote=bob] into the post.
It would be really nice if LQ could do some of the work for me. In particular, it would be easy to see if the [quote]d text is a citation of something previously said in the same thread by exactly one person (excluding previous quote blocks, I would imagine), and then fill in "=$username" into the quote tag. WDYT?
Another feature I've thought about is automatically adding quote tags around whole paragraphs of some ${lower_limit} size consisting only of text someone else has already said. This quickly becomes undefinable AI-complete DWIM-processing (at least I would think so). WDYT?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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I'm not 100% following your request. If you hit the "Quote" button in a post, it does prepopulate with the poster information. A future upgrade will support "Multi-quote", which is the ability to easily quote multiple posts in a thread.
> If you hit the "Quote" button in a post, it does prepopulate with the poster information.
Yep, but I can't hit n "Quote" buttons, so I still have to write n-1 [quote] tags manually.
Multi-quote sounds like what I'm asking for, but not necessarily my suggested solution (which is fine as long as the implemented solution does the job reasonably well).
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