bbpress-quotes fix for wp_editor

function quote(postid, author, commentarea, commentID) {
    try {

            var editor_html = document.getElementById('bbp_reply_content-html');
                switchEditors.switchto(editor_html);
        // If you don't want quotes begin with "<author>:", uncomment the next line
        //author = null;

        // begin code
        var posttext = '';

        if (window.getSelection){
            posttext = window.getSelection();
        }

        else if (document.getSelection){
            posttext = document.getSelection();
        }

        else if (document.selection){
            posttext = document.selection.createRange().text;
        }

        else {
            return true;
        }

        if (posttext=='') {     // quoting entire comment

            // quoteing the entire thing
            var selection = false;
            var commentID = commentID.split("q-")[1];
            //var commentID = "bbp-reply-content";

            // quote entire comment as html
            var theQuote = "q-"+commentID;
            //var theQuote = "div-comment-"+commentID;
            var posttext = document.getElementById(theQuote).innerHTML;

            // remove nested divs
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<div(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/div>)/ig, "");

            // remove nested blockquotes
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<blockquote(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/blockquote>)/ig, "");
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<blockquote(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/blockquote>)/ig, "");

            // remove superfluous linebreaks
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/\s\s/gm, "");

            // do basic cleanups
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/   /g, "");
            //var posttext = posttext.replace(/<p>/g, "\n");
            //var posttext = posttext.replace(/<\/\s*p>/g, "");
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<p>/g, "");
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<\/\s*p>/g, "\n\n");
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<br>/g, "")

            // remove nonbreaking space
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/&nbsp;/g, " ");

            // remove nested spans
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<span(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/span>)/ig, "");

            // remove nested blockquotes
            while (posttext != (posttext = posttext.replace(/<blockquote>[^>]*<\/\s*blockquote>/g, "")));

            // remove nested quote links
            var posttext = posttext.replace(/<a class="bbpress_quotes__link"(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/a>)/ig, "");
            //var posttext = posttext.replace(/<a class="comment_reply_link"(.*?)>((.|\n)*?)(<\/a>)/ig, "");

        }

        // build quote
        //if (author) {

            // prevent xss stuff
            author = jsEncode(author);

            var quote='\n<blockquote cite="comment-'+postid+'">\n\n<strong><a href="#comment-'+postid+'">'+unescape(author)+'</a></strong>: '+posttext+'</blockquote>&nbsp;\n';

        //} else {

            //var quote='\n<blockquote cite="comment-'+postid+'">\n\n'+posttext+'</blockquote>\n';

        //}

        // send quoted content
        //if (mce == true) {        // TinyMCE detected

            //addQuoteMCE(comment,quote);
            //insertHTML(quote);
            //insertHTML("<p>&nbsp;</p>");

        //} else {              // No TinyMCE detected

            var comment=document.getElementById(commentarea);
            addQuote(comment,quote);

        //}
                var editor_html = document.getElementById('bbp_reply_content-tmce');
                switchEditors.switchto(editor_html);
        return false;

    } catch (e) {

        alert("Uh Oh! Something went wrong!")

    }



}