ElkArte Community

This is a feature that Xenforo, Burning Board, Flarum and NodeBB offers. They allow users to quote a selected piece of text instead of whole post. Users can simple select the text in a post they intend to quote and they get a tool tip to insert it as a quote. Something that will be a nice addition to Elk as well, in my opinion .

You mean quick quote:

http://www.ElkArte.net/community/index.php?topic=3456

Yes. The same.

I wasn't aware that any forums implemented that by default these days, but of course the idea is pretty obvious. The quick quote script I built upon goes back to '05 or so,^[1] when it was conceived as a UserJS forum enhancement. Incidentally there is also the dQuoteSelection (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2086) addon for SMF. It's functionally inferior and practically unportable across forum systems, but perhaps it's ultimately conceptually better thought out for SMF and related systems like Elk.

SMF is a thousand light years behind other scripts in terms of ideas.

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