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, only non-empty lines can be quoted, which ensures that empty lines are not modified at all.

Optionally, 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 simply appended, because leading white-spaces is all that those line contain.

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: If you are writting a list (or a table) in an HTML document, you may write all the lines of such a list first without having to bother with HTML tags. Then select all relevant lines, invoke the Quote.. tool (hotkey Alt+Ctrl+Q), and enter quoting phrase like <LI>.