For those who didn't know, pressing r will quote the selected text into the comment box. This is a native GitHub feature. Sadly this just quotes plain text and discards any style.
We could override the default hotkey with our GitHub-optimized DOM-to-Markdown converter.
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Yes, let's do it. That's a much better way to take advantage of our DOM-MD thing.
GitHub did it.
GitHub did it.
Also, good thing GitHub made the feature available also through a "Quote reply" entry to the ... hamburger menu of issues/comments. It makes the feature 1. more discoverable, and 2. usable (with two clicks) for Vimium users for who r is bound to reloading the page 馃檪.
It may be time for this, too https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/pull/1624
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GitHub did it.