New versions of thunderbird won't quote selected text
In past versions when replying, selecting text to quote (by highlighting) would automatically get used for the inserted quote in the message reply. In recent versions it seems I now need to use a copy command before inserting the text as a quotation.
Is this now expected behaviour or a bug ?
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Paul
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No, that makes no difference.
The automatically quote message option is a different behaviour. That just inserts the whole message into the reply as a quotation. That's not the behaviour I'm concerned with.
It's the ability to just select some of the text to reply to and then insert as a quotation without needing to copy it.
Having now dug deeper it looks like the problem is that a fantastic add-on AutoCopy 2 has been disabled on the latest versions of TB.
Curious to know what you've got on your system sfhowes that enables the same functionality.
Maybe the answer is to try and back track a few versions and stick with an older working version, but I'm nor sure if I'll loose my mail base trying to go backwards.
Blaming the incoming messages isn't right. It seems clear now that the problem is that AutoCopy 2 now doesn't work. Hopefully the author will update it. In the meantime I think it easier to try to revert to an older version of TB that does support the add-on, as nothing recently added has been of value to me, but loosing AutoCopy 2's functionality is a major annoyance.
rhossydd said
It seems clear now that the problem is that AutoCopy 2 now doesn't work. Hopefully the author will update it.
I select some text, click reply and that is what is quoted. I never heard of this autocopy add-on until today, so it is not the provider of such functionality. Until you can get past that I doubt this topic will make progress.
Having now looked at the add-on I really do not see any functionality it adds to Thunderbird except paste into search bar.
Search is on a right click context menu. Thunderbird has no location bar
No, you're missing what Autocopy2 does. It's more sophisticated than the simple select>reply function which does work here.
It allows any selected text to go automatically to the clipboard, it makes replying with multiple quotes far easier. I don't use it with search or anything else, just fast selected quotes. If you'd worked with it, you'd understand why it so valuable.