OSX Mail reply with highlighted text as quote In Mail app 7.0 on OSX 10.9, If I highlight a piece of text and then choose Message → Forward it creates a new email with the relevant text as a quote. How do I replicate this behaviour with Message → Reply?

I believe this functionality was present in an earlier version of Mail.

Edit: unchecking Preferences → Composing → Quote the text of the original message causes this behaviour. With it checked (the default setting), any highlighted text becomes the quote. However with no highlighted text the entire message I am replying to is quoted, behaviour I don't want so this is frustrating.
I was googling for the same problem and bumped into here. For people who don't know how to mark a piece of text as a quote in OSX Mail 10.1 I accidently found the way to do it.

You should:


Highlight the text you want to mark as a quote
Hit Command + '


The whole line will be converted into a quote.