04-20-2021, 04:28 PM
You do not always have to quote everything. Toggle the display to show the 'markup'. It is possible to separate quotes but depending or the level of quotes inside quotes it can be annoying.
Another way is to compose your reply offline. Windows is not blessed with the best of tools, look for a decent text editor and a multi-clipboard. I might do something like this.
Which gives a reply such....
My reply to that section. With un-edited multiple nested quotes it can be difficult to match the mark-up start and finish...so
That, I suppose is progress. In days gone-by, with expensive dial-up internet, when there was only email, mailing lists and usegroups it was common to do all editing off line and reply 'in-bulk'.
So a bit of copy and paste between the quote markers can work.
Another way is to compose your reply offline. Windows is not blessed with the best of tools, look for a decent text editor and a multi-clipboard. I might do something like this.
Which gives a reply such....
Quote:EDIT: I've been trying for the last 30 minutes to separate my reply to Rickk and my reply to you and make them into two separate replies...
My reply to that section. With un-edited multiple nested quotes it can be difficult to match the mark-up start and finish...so
Quote:..Always been that way here, far as I can recall. I believe they consider that to be more of a "feature" than a "bug". To force afterthoughts to be appended to their host ideas, and in the process thwart users who otherwise might try to inflate their post count.
That, I suppose is progress. In days gone-by, with expensive dial-up internet, when there was only email, mailing lists and usegroups it was common to do all editing off line and reply 'in-bulk'.
So a bit of copy and paste between the quote markers can work.