Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by will on Jan. 26, 2012 · permalink

I like this add-on. It did the hard work of adding a very useful feature to Thunderbird to hide quotes. There is still a little more work to be done in terms of preferences and keyboard shortcuts as some of the other reviewers have suggested.

Here is some code that can be used with the keyconfig addon to add a keyboard shortcut to toggle expanding and collapsing all quotations in a message.

tree = QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument.getElementsByTagName("blockquote");

if (tree.item(0).getAttribute("qctoggled") == "true") {
QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 0);
}
else {
QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 1);
}

If you want separate commands for expanding and collapsing, just use

QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 1);

to expand all and

QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 0);

to collapse all.