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help: Link quote-and-reply and permalink articles. 

This to a partial rewrite of the quote-and-reply article to explain
the current details for how it works (the permanent link is relatively
new).
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# Link to a message or conversation
Share permanent links to messages, threads, and streams. The Zulip project
uses this feature extensively to link to Zulip conversations from our
issue tracker.
Share permanent links to messages, threads, and streams. With Zulip,
it's easy to to link to specific (parts of) conversations from issue
trackers, documentation, or other external tools.
## Link to a stream or topic
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displayed in its thread (i.e. topic view for messages in a stream).
Viewing a thread via a message link will never mark messages as read.
Zulip uses the same permanent link syntax when [quoting a
message](/help/quote-and-reply).

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# Quote and reply
You can quote a previous message in your reply.
Note that quote and reply automatically turns mentions in the quoted
text into
[silent mentions](/help/mention-a-user-or-group#silently-mention-a-user).
### Quote and reply
You can quote a previous message, either replying within a topic or to
start a new topic.
{start_tabs}
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1. Click **Quote and reply**.
1. (optional) Delete paragraphs not relevant to your reply, just like
when replying to a multi-paragraph email.
1. Send your message.
{end_tabs}
You can also use the keyboard shortcut `>` to quote the message under the
blue box.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut `>` to initiate quote-and-reply.
## Related articles
* The first line of the reply contains a [permanent
link](/help/link-to-a-message-or-conversation) to the quoted
message.
* Zulip automatically turns mentions in quoted text into [silent
mentions](/help/mention-a-user-or-group#silently-mention-a-user) to
avoid unnecessarily mentioning someone twice.
* You can use [quote
blocks](/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#quotes) when
quoting emails or other non-Zulip content.