[Question] How do you quote someone's comment? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/blorp@lemmy.zip

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I was replying to a larger comment by someone else and I couldn't figure out how to highlight and copy to paste into my own reply just a part of their longer comment. How do you do this? The only workaround I could think of was to back out and be able to highlight sentences in the comment from the main view of the post, not in the drafting section of my reply.

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[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

How do you do this?

use > before whatever you're commenting

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't want to manually retype what I'm quoting, though. What if I wanna quote several lines across several responses in one comment? How do you highlight and copy? Every other app lets you press-hold on the parent comment's text for selection and copying to paste into your body. For many, even, you just need to highlight and then press the quote button.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I don't want to manually retype what I'm quoting, though. What if I wanna quote several lines across several responses in one comment? How do you highlight and copy? Every other app lets you press-hold on the parent comment's text for selection and copying to paste into your body. For many, even, you just need to highlight and then press the quote button.