Quote Block

The Quote Block item is available via the Reformat Text button on the collection toolbar and via the Format menu, except when the Recycle Bin tab is active.

You can use the Quote Block command to quote a block of text by inserting certain characters at the start of each line in the selection. In email, for example, it is common to quote excerpts from the email you’re responding to by prefixing them with > . When you select the Quote Block command, AceText asks you for the characters used to quote the block. AceText then inserts those characters at the start of each line in the selection. Blank lines in the selection are also quoted. If you’ve made a rectangular selection then the comment characters are inserted on each line covered by the selection at the leftmost column in the selection. You can tick a checkbox to make AceText remember the comment characters you provided. It does so separately for each collection while you have the collection open.

You can use Quote Block on lines that are already quoted. Those are then doubly quoted.

When Word Wrap is on, only paragraphs are quoted. Quote Block does not insert quotation characters in front of wrapped lines. This way you don’t end up with quotation characters in the middle of lines when the lines are rewrapped when resizing AceText. You can use the Limit Line Length command to first insert line breaks at wrapping positions and then use Quote Block to quote all the lines.

See Editing Clips and Text to learn how to use AceText.