Linkify quote replies

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

When an issue discussion includes more than two people it makes sense to add a link to the quoted comment. I do not think automatically adding an @-mention makes sense since you may not want this by default and it is easily added by hand.
Full URL where the feature should appear: https://togithub.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/4024

[fregante]

So do you want existing conversations to be linkified somehow or that a link should be added before leaving a comment?

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

A link should be hard-catenated to the quote.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Unless this is against some existing standard...

[fregante]

So you mean you want your own comments to include a link for everyone else to see?

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Yes. Maybe useless if it does not become standard GitHub behavior.

[fregante]

You might like: https://github.com/jerone/UserScripts/tree/master/Github_Reply_Comments

Example result: jerone/UserScripts#1 (comment)

[fregante]

I'd find it useful as well, but adding this feature would mean at least one of these:

A. Hacking the native R shortcut and "Quote Reply" features to add a link
B. Recreating the whole "quote text" feature
C. Adding a button

They're likely impossible, heavy (due to a DOM-to-Markdown converter), inexact (i.e. different from the native converter), error-prone (we had the converter before, it required several fixes) and visually noisy.

I think the script above will have to do. It does what it does by using B and C.

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Other than that, you could just right-click the comment’s time, copy its URL and paste it after quoting it.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Yep. That makes sense.