Gmail – How to Attach Files from Google Docs Directly

This question may in some respect, resemble Attach multiple files to an email from Google Docs, but the answers there didn't answer my question.

I often find myself wanting to attach documents stored in Google Docs to my GMail mails, but unfortunately I know only two ways of doing it.

• Download the file, and then attach it.
• Send a mail, directly from Google Docs

What I want is to attach the document from within GMail itself.

There are a number of reasons for this.

• Attaching multiple documents is impossible from google docs site.
• Attaching a document to a reply is impossible without downloading the file from Google Docs.

As per the discussion in Google Product Forums, attaching a Google Doc directly from GMail is not possible, but the posts there are almost a year old.

So, if anyone knows of a way of doing this, please help out.