element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android

Reply quoted text expansion or link

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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Get more context about a thread or a message reply. Element X only displays a part of the text being replied to and sometimes you want more context to understand why someone wrote that reply.

Example:
> Here's a very long statement that got trunc....

And here's a reply text. To better put it in context, you want to know more about the text above

#### Why would you like to do it?
Explained above.

#### How would you like to achieve it?
Tapping on the quoted text could:
- Expand the quoted text so you can read the entire message being replied to
- Link to the message being replied to

I think expanding is more efficient as it requires less context switch and scrolling by the user.

If the expansion can be done recursively (like Element Web does), it would be easy to get the full picture of a thread or a chain of replies.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

_No response_

### Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

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