Copy message from context menu not working correctly

[DmytroPuzhay]

Description:

"Copy" copies only comment text, but not the author/time. Related to https://github.com/assistify/Rocket.Chat/issues/616

Steps to reproduce:

1. click ... near any comment
2. Copy
3. Paste

Expected behavior:

Comment author/time + content is pasted

Actual behavior:

Only comment content is pasted

[jschirrmacher]

Isn't that what the Quote command - or, if you want to 'copy' to another channel, the Get Link command - does? Or does at least help these commands do, what you want to do?

[DmytroPuzhay]

"Quote" just gives you a possibility to answer on the top level and not in a thread.

"Get link" copies the link to a comment as I understand, but sometimes I don't want to provide a link, eg when the comment was sent directly of in a private channel.

[jschirrmacher]

If you want to start a thread, then simply Reply in Thread.

So, actually, you need the change to copy a private message (which you can't link to), content together with its metadata to paste both in another channel.

[DmytroPuzhay]

I don't, I was just commenting on your Quote suggestion :)

Yes, that would be the most frequent case, but sometimes I also want to forward a single comment or some parts of discussion without forcing my companion to navigate/read everything else there.

I think that Copy actually used to work like that, but it got change ~1-2 Month ago.

[ruKurz]

This is a feature request with a low impact. Currently we'll not working on this actively.

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