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Replace "Share" with "Copy link to message"

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#2,623 opened on Jun 4, 2018

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When I'm looking at a Zulip message and want to share it with someone, sometimes I want to send them a copy of the message's contents; and sometimes I want to send them a link so they can read the whole conversation around it, when I know they have access to see it.

Currently we don't provide the "link to this message" feature. We should add it to the long-press menu. The simple way to do this is an option labeled "Copy link to message", which just puts a link on the clipboard.

It can replace the "Share" option -- that option doesn't currently add a ton of value, because it just copies the text of the message into another app. (In some apps, a "share" option shares a link to the thing being shared. But that works a lot better when all the data is public, and anyone you share it with can follow the link.)

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