The Unquote 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.
In email messages it is common to quote previous messages by prefixing each line of the previous message with a special character, typically >. If you captured some text from a quoted message into AceText, you can instantly remove the > and similar characters and spaces from the start of each line with the Unquote Block command.
When you select the Unquote Block command, AceText asks you for the characters used to quote the block. AceText then removes those characters from the start of each line in the selection. Lines that don’t start with the quotation characters are left untouched. If you’ve made a rectangular selection then AceText removes the quotation characters if they appear right at the left hand edge of 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.
When a line is quoted multiple times, as you may get in email when multiple replies quote all the previous messages, Unquote Block removes only one quotation character from the start of that line. You can repeat the Unquote Block command if you want to remove further levels of quotation.
After unquoting a block you can use the Reflow Paragraphs command so the text will automatically rewrap when you edit it.
See Editing Clips and Text to learn how to use AceText.