[Pan-users] Re: Skip quoted text when scrolling

[Benjamin Esham]

Douglas Bollinger wrote:

> Benjamin Esham wrote:
> 
> > This is just a heads-up about an RFE I filed recently.  Bug 464580
> > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464580) asks for some way to
> > automatically skip past quoted text when "read[ing] more".  Some posters
> > include an absurd amount of quoted text before their replies, and it's
> > often necessary to press the space bar two or three times to skip past
> > all of it. If this is implemented, doing a Read More would skip to the
> > beginning of the next block of non-quoted text.
> 
> Why not press "Q" and mute the quoted text?

I think that the "mute quoted text" option would be a cruder way of doing
this.  It would prevent you from having to scroll through a lot of quoted
text, but it would also prevent you from peeking back at the quoted text for
context, as is sometimes necessary.  Additionally, when reading near the
middle of a large post, toggling 'q' will royally screw up your vertical
position in the post, requiring you to scroll around to get back to where
you were.

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