Feature Request: Add Quote/Reply Functionality to Message Component
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Description
Add the ability to quote or reply to specific messages in conversations, similar to common chat interfaces like ChatGPT, Slack, and Discord.
Motivation
Adding a built-in way to quote or reference previous messages in a conversation will:
- Provide context when responding to specific parts of a conversation
- Improve multi-turn conversations where users want to reference earlier points
Proposed User Flow
- User hovers over, clicks, or double-clicks text within a message
- A "Reply" or quote button appears
- Clicking it adds the selected message content as a quoted reference
- The quoted text appears in/near the input area
- User can remove/cancel the quote with a close button or ESC key
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Message component and the conversation input area described in the proposed flow. Review how message selection, reply state, quoted content, cancellation, and keyboard handling currently work; done means users can select a message, add it as a quote, remove it, and see the reference while composing a reply.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100