Re: [tlug] Quoting...yet again

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > Well, as I said, keep in mind that I'm hardly a GUI-editor power user,
 > but selecting a block with an arbitrary start point and end point from
 > text in front of you should be as simple as "move mouse to start, hold
 > down button, drag to end," or something similar, ought it not? Then it's
 > a simple matter of pressing the delete key. Note I am talking about a
 > typical mail message where both of your endpoints are on-screen.

But we're talking about trimming an overquoted post, often in an
interface (eg, Gmail) that probably doesn't give you more than 15
lines of context per "screen".  So my experience is that trimming in
Gmail is a timeconsuming, annoying operation.