Regression: the "R" keyboard shortcut no longer quote-replies selected text into new comment

[justingrant]

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Recently (a few weeks ago?) the "R" keyboard shortcut (for quote reply) stopped being sensitive to whatever text was selected. Before this update, if there was a selection, then the only text that was copied into the new-comment textarea was the text that was selected. After the update, the entire contents of the comment are copied into the new comment.

This new behavior is contrary to many years of GitHub behavior, and is also contrary to what the docs say:

Note: When viewing a conversation, you can automatically quote text in a comment by highlighting the text, then typing R. You can quote an entire comment by clicking , then Quote reply. For more information about keyboard shortcuts, see "Keyboard shortcuts."

This is really annoying! Now every time I want to partially quote a comment, I need to delete the rest of the quoted text.

Please bring back the old functionality!

To repro:

1. Open Should ECMA-402 spec text for time zone canonicalization refer to CLDR or to IANA as authoritative? tc39/ecma402#825
2. Select any text inside any comment
3. Press the R key.

Expected: only the selected text is quoted in the new comment, like it would do up until the recent update.

Actual: the entire comment is copied into the new-comment textarea.

If it matters, I'm using the latest version of Chrome 116.0.5845.187 on MacOS 13.4.1.

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[justingrant]

Update: this problem may not be happening in all issues. For example, it doesn't happen in this discussion. But it does happen in many issues that I use, for example: tc39/ecma402#825

I updated the OP repro steps with that issue URL to make it easier for you to troubleshoot.