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# Compose and reply
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Most messages in Zulip are written in the **compose box**.
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There are two main parts to the compose box.
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* **Recipient bar**: The **stream and topic** for stream messages, or the
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**list of users** for private messages.
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* **Content area**: The text of the message to be sent.
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Unlike many chat apps, the compose box is closed by default in Zulip. This
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guide explains how to open the compose box to start writing a message.
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## Open the compose box (mouse)
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**Click on any message** to reply to its topic thread or PM thread.
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To start a new PM thread, click **New private message** at the bottom of the
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screen.
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To start a new topic in a stream, navigate to the stream, and click
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**New topic** at the bottom of the screen. You can also click
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**New topic** from any view and manually fill the stream and topic.
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## Open the compose box (keyboard)
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Compose and reply is incredibly fast with a few keyboard shortcuts.
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* **Reply**: `r` or `Enter`
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* **New private message**: `x`
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* **New topic**: `c`
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All replies are replying to the message under the **blue box**. You can move
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the blue box around using the arrow keys, `j`, or `k`.
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## Address a user when you can't type their name
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Names in Zulip can be in any language. For distributed teams, this can mean
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someone's name can have letters that don't exist on your keyboard.
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Zulip provides a number of workarounds.
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### Type a substring
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Zulip's typeaheads match any substring of a name. So if a user writes their
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name as `मेरा नाम (my name)`, you can start typing `रा ...` or `am ...` in
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the recipient bar to match.
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### Start a PM with a user
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Click on a user's avatar, an @-mention, or on the down chevron
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(<i class="fa fa-chevron-down"></i>) to the right of their name in the
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right sidebar.
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Click **Send private message**.
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Keyboard shortcut: `>`
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### Reply mentioning user
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Click on a user's avatar, an @-mention, or on the down chevron
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(<i class="fa fa-chevron-down"></i>) to the right of their name in the
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right sidebar.
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Click **Reply mentioning user**.
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Keyboard shortcut: `@`
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### Reply to author
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`R` starts a PM with the author of a message. This
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feature is currently only available via the keyboard.
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## Quote and reply
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You can quote a previous message in your reply.
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{!message-actions-menu.md!}
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1. Click **Quote and reply**.
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Keyboard shortcut: `>`
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