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I.e., reply to message with an @-mention of its author -- what the @ shortcut does in the webapp. This is handy in user-support kinds of use cases, particularly in an org like chat.zulip.org where there are tons of users, many with similar names, and so finding the author in autocomplete isn't always a great option. @timabbott has requested this a few times... as someone who frequently makes support-type replies on chat.zulip.org :wink:
A simple version of this would be as yet another option in the long-press menu. Maybe only on messages you didn't send -- that will help slightly because the menu can be longer on your own messages (with delete and edit).
Spitballing, a fancier version would be to turn "Reply" into "Reply...", and have it pull up a second menu with options like "Reply", "Reply @${sender.full_name}", "Reply quoting message" (see #1975). But that might be best done separately after merging a first version of this.