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.

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