thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Cannot paste as quotation

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type: enhancement
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Description

Mainly because of bug #3131, but useful in general is option "paste as quotation".
This feature is very well known in thunderbird. When you chose paste as quotation each line of text gets an additional ">" . This will not work until #3208 is fixed, as K9 currenlty removes all the quotation levels.

Thanks and best regards,
Adam

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Research direction

Start by reading bug #3131 and issue #3208, since the request explicitly depends on both. Then locate the Android paste handling and quotation-level removal paths. Done means adding a paste-as-quotation option that prefixes each pasted line with ">" while preserving quotation levels.

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Assessment

Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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