Adding 'Quote' option to the pull-down 'Note' menu

^^^this pull-down menu^^^ is really handy to quickly tag (or send a note/private note to) the other players in a game.

I was wondering, could there be a 'Quote' command added to the pull-down menu?

So, at the bottom of the pull-down menu it would be:

Add note
Private
Mention
Quote





it would be handy if one wants to quote only a sentence in a long post by another player. Currently, to do that one has to press 'Quote' under that player's post, then delete the parts one doesn't want to quote. Seems more intuitive to paste a section, then surround it with tags?

Since Quote relies (just like Note, Private, Mention) on the player name(s) to be correctly inserted in the tag, it would make sense to me to also include the Quote command in this menu.

Just a thought, in case it is deemed useful!

Agreed! I think this was discussed a while back but I don't remember what came of it.

Does it?

Apologies if this has been discussed before.

[note="Dr_B"][/note]
[private="Dr_B"][/private]
[quote="Dr_B"][/quote]

They all seem to share the same syntax? I might be wrong.
Mention is similar, but not identical, not requiring a tag.

Ideally it would work like the font formatting tags. Just highlight the section you want to quote, hit a Q icon, and the quote appears with the highlighted text and the tags around it.

[quote]it would look like this, though[/quote]

[quote="nezzeraj"]as opposed to this[/quote]

This would be nice, especially when trying to quote a line from a very long post on a cell phone.

My point is that quote doesn't need the username to be correctly inserted to work.

So this works:

But if someone wants to add it, then edit: javascript/markItUp/sets/bbcode/game-forum-set.js

Add the option below line 16. Process it by adding the functionality into the block at lines 91-95. (assuming I understand the request - which is a helluvan assumption).

Oh I see, sure. You can type all you want there.

But I still want to insert the player name in the quote, and there's a pull down menu right there that could do it for me a lot more easily than typing it 😂

Fair enough.

If someone wants to pick this up and go through the development/testing/release/everyone-yelling-at-them cycle then game-forum-set.js controls that menu.

As an aside, you can insert player and character names to any post using the quills in the character menu.



I think of it as the "elf name" feature. Ain't nobody got time to learn those spellings. It works for player names too.

Oh, that's super useful, had no idea the quills did that.

I had no idea either! Awesome. Well, I'm no much of a coder but gotta start somewhere! I will see about adding some of the easier features like the dice highlight code and this.

Edit: Ok so just thinking of the best way to do this, I don't think the note dropdown is the best way. The goal is to only quote selected text, so clicking on the note button will negate that (at least on mobile). There is already a quote button next to the note button, and a quote option under the post as well, so 3 options seem like overkill. The ideal solution is just to have either one place a higher priority on selected text, and only quote that if it exists, otherwise quote the whole post. Or maybe have the quote option in the text bar make highlighted quotes, and the one under the post quote the whole post. I have no idea about how to do that haha.

Finally, I can @ Adam without having to triple-check the spelling

Agree, if the Quote were to be added to the Note pull-down menu, it might not be needed elsewhere. Just like there is only one place for Note, Private, Mention.

The quill option for entering a name only exist within a game and only for players who have characters in that game. It operates on a different scale to the menu under discussion, we could not use it in this thread for instance. But then, the Notes pulldown does not work here either, it autofills from games list but also does not give all the options when not in a game.

The option to select text and click a button to add it as a Quote seems like it would be useful, but is also a bigger task than changing that menu, and may depend on browser and OS.

I'd much rather have the one click quote tag than the pull down that adds a name but requires more clicks, so I'm voting strongly against this