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Look again at this tonight I see all the magic would have to happen in “post-form.php” and unfortunately it would need a simple edit.

<textarea name="post_content" cols="50" rows="8" id="post_content" tabindex="3"></textarea>

would have to be edited to something like

<textarea name="post_content" cols="50" rows="8" id="post_content" tabindex="3"><? quote_post(); ?> </textarea>

Even though there is do_action( 'post_form_pre_post' ); just above it, there is no way to manipulate the textarea content without javascript. It’s a shame they didn’t think of that.

So quote_post() could just look for the added arg to the URL and insert the formatted quoted text in the textarea. Then a simple quote button on each post in the topic to trigger the new post.

ie.

?new=1&quote_post=1873

If you don’t write it, I’ll take a shot at it.