Quote Lines

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Quote.. (Alt+Ctrl+Q)

Asks for a Quote phrase to work with and then quotes (i.e. indents) the selection with the specified phrase at the beginning of each line.

Optionally, Quote non-empty lines only can be used to quote non-empty lines only, which ensures that empty lines are not modified at all.

Optionally, using the Skip leading spaces, the quoting phrase may be inserted just after all leading white-spaces on each line. This way, any current line indentation is kept unmodified, and the quoting phrase is appended to that indentation, before the first graph (i.e. non-white-space) character.

Note: When quoting of empty lines is allowed, and leading white-spaces are to be skipped, special consequential case occurs. On empty lines, quoting phrase is appended, because the skipped leading white-spaces is all that those line contain.

Note: The selection always persists in this tool.

Example: (an e-mail received from a user)

----- Original Message ----- Great notepad! Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial, of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.

Result, using Quote: >_ and Quote non-empty lines only checked:

----- Original Message ----- > Great notepad! > Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial, > of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.

Tip: Combine the Quote Lines tool with the Close Lines tool in order to write paragraphs or lists in HTML documents without having to bother with <p> or <li> tags while writing. Write all paragraphs first, each one on a separate line (you may use Word Wrap (hotkey Ctrl+W) to see long lines automatically wrapped into several lines, since the Word Wrap does not affect tools). When done, select all the lines and use both Quote Lines and Close Lines tools to add the <p> and </p> tags (or <li> and </li> tags) to each line.

Example:

Great notepad! Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial, of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.

Result, quoting with <li> and closing with </li>:

<li>Great notepad!</li> <li>Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial,</li> <li>of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.</li>