Question about Thunderbird

[Bill Turner]

I've been trying Thunderbird and I pretty much like it, but one thing
could be improved - or maybe it already exists and I don't know how to
turn it on.

When replying to a post I would like to be able to highlight only a
part of the original and have that part and only that part quoted in my
reply. I know I can set TB to not quote anything and then copy and
paste the desired part, but doing it that way does not include the
typical header such as "On 4/20/2006, so and so wrote:"

Is there a way to accomplish this, perhaps with an extension?

Bill Turner

 

[mike555]

=== when replying , you should be able to highlite and delete any thing
you don't want sent ==========

 

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

mike555 wrote:

=== when replying , you should be able to highlite and delete any
thing you don't want sent ==========

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Well, of course. But often that means highlighting and deleting 95% of
the original message, compared to highlighting only the 5% you want.
Both Eudora and Agent have this capability built in. I'm surprized that
with all the time and effort put into Thunderbird, they left this
important function out.

Bill Turner

 

[charles]

I've been trying Thunderbird and I pretty much like it, but one thing
could be improved - or maybe it already exists and I don't know how to
turn it on.

When replying to a post I would like to be able to highlight only a
part of the original and have that part and only that part quoted in my
reply. I know I can set TB to not quote anything and then copy and
paste the desired part, but doing it that way does not include the
typical header such as "On 4/20/2006, so and so wrote:"

Is there a way to accomplish this, perhaps with an extension?

Bill Turner

bug #23394 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23394>

 

[Jim]

Is there a way to accomplish this, perhaps with an extension?

Yes, and I just used it to reply to your posting.

QuickQuote:
http://quickquote.mozdev.org