272898 - Highlighting text in a mail, then replying should crop quoted text to region in compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23394

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Bret Mogilefsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I saw this amazingly useful feature when watching a friend try out a recent
version of Evolution:  Say you're replying to a huge mail, but you're really
only making a point about one or two paragraphs in the middle of it all.  When
you hit reply, you normally have to go cut out all the extraneous quoted text to
make your point.  In Evolution, you can highlight a bit of the message before
you hit reply, and the new compose window will have already cropped the quoted
text to just the bit you'd highlighted.  An awesome time-saver!

I scurried back to my desk to see if Thunderbird had this feature without my
knowing it.  Sadly, such was not the case.  Can you change that please?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight some text in a mail
2. Hit the reply button

Actual Results:  
The entire mail was quoted in the compose window

Expected Results:  
Just the highlighted section should be quoted.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23394 ***