add a link at the bottom of each forum post to allow user to quote the message in the reply:

AT BOTTOM OF 1ST POSTING IN A FORUM

» add new comment | quote | next forum topic | 16 reads

AT BOTTOM OF REPLIES IN A FORUM THREAD

» reply to this comment | quote

as for how to display the quote, i'd recommend indentation and a bold 'John wrote:' just above the quoted text.

to see how this is done with bbcode, see this phpbb2 example

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

I like this feature. Hoever, do folks think it is disruptive to put a quote link right beside a 'add new comment' link. They go to the same page, after all.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

For usability, I think it needs to be a separate link.

The only other way to implement (that I can think of) would be some sort of javascript that pasted in the previous comment/node content from a hidden form field, activated from a "quote previous" when you are looking at the blank comment text box.

Also, make this link an option that can be turned on/off in admin.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Title: quote option in forums » ability to quote quoteother people's node/comments in your reply
Component: forum.module » comment.module
Assigned: Unassigned » moshe weitzman

i am beginning work on this real soon.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

I have uploaded a quote.module into Contrib which lets you quote nodes in your reply. But I have no way to hook into comemnt_links(), so for now you may not quote other people's comments. marking this as fixed. please open up related requests against quote.module or comment.module