Thanks for the reply, Kevin.
I understand it is meant to be quick, but that doesnt really mean it won't include any code. I love the quick reply idea, becuase it prevents a page reload (which means alot at this point, becuase the site is very slow). I am guessing that the reason for not being able to insert code is becuase the insert code dialog comes up in a "Telligent Modal", and the quick reply box itself is a "Telligent Modal". So, two telligent modals probably can't communicate with each other (i dont know, this is just my guess).
Perhaps the "insert code" should bring up it's own popup window just as "insert image" and "insert hyperlink" does? It has always been my opinion that it should do this anyway (think about it, "insert code" is the only button on the rich text editor that functions differently from all the others). An even better reason is... what if you want to take a piece of the original message and include it when you insert code (after you have already began to insert code)? Let me detail a scenario for you that I frequently run into:
User asks a question and includes some code with their message. You reply and start to type up the code that will fix his problem. You have it almost complete, but there are a few lines you want to take from the original message. How do you plan to take something from the original message when you have this annoying "Telligent modal" in your face? Well, you are forced to copy all the existing code you have in the dialog and paste it in a separate instance of notepad. Then you close the "insert code" dialog, find the line(s) you wanted from the original message, and paste them in your notepad instance. Then you click insert code again and paste everything from notepad into the dialog to include the final code sample.
Believe it or not, I have had to do this hundreds of times. This begs the question, why doesn't the "insert code" dialog popup into a regular window like all other text editor functions? Am I wrong?
Basically, to me, the "quick reply" link currently means "reply without formatted code". That might not be its intent, but thats what it means to me and that is how I will use it. In other words, the quick reply is only intriguing me to post my code in the lazy, unformatted way. If the only difference between the quick reply and the standard reply is the ability to insert properly formatted code, what do you expect me to do? This really should have been easy to predict; all users will want to do things quickly.
Hopefully this will be considered...