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Can I get a diff of my changes before submitting an edit?
When editing a post I usually want to write a concise summary (especially when suggesting an edit).
This would be much easier if I was able to get a diff for my changes. Sometimes editing a post ...
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"Rendered output", "inline", and "side-by-side" show everything as being removed then added back when it's a small edit on a long post
I just saw this edit to a very long post. The markdown diff of the edit looks fine, showing that six or so lines were changed, but the "rendered output" of the edit shows everything (even the image) ...
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Insertion highlights in revisions differ between inline vs markdown, and prefer strange similarities
This seems to be an issue that was raised in the past and then marked as status-completed, so I'm not sure if it's a regression or a different issue.
There seems to be a minor issue with the ...
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Edit changed nothing
A second or two after I made an edit on a post, I noticed that the original author of the post made an edit that changed absolutely nothing. Neither the Stack Overflow difference algorithm nor two ...
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Bugged simultaneous edit
In the following post: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/19760375/revisions
A user made a minor edit to my post (edit 3) by correcting a mistake at the same time that I made a larger but non-...
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Asked to review instead of edit, but cannot because temporary review quota reached
I clicked Edit to edit a question (to add tags). I was told to instead review a pending edit for the question. But I had already reviewed the maximum number of edits for that category for now, so it ...
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Make suggested edit title changes easier to read [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please keep title edits display consistent with content edits
Please show changed titles separately in edit diffs
While the red/green highlighting works great side-by-side, ...
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Is it feasible to highlight realtime "edit" changes?
While reading I see a lot of those "An edit has been made to this post, click to update" gray info bars, but unless the change involves adding a chunk of text, I'm not usually perceptive enough to ...
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Let me preview an edit so that it appears with the same style as revisions
I am editing a question and would like to preview my changes prior to saving. I can see how the page will look and can optionally hide this preview.
However, I would like to see the actual changes ...
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Please keep title edits display consistent with content edits
Currently if the user edits the title of an answer as well as the content, the title changes are viewed in place (on the left) and the content changes are separate, on the right.
As a result you have ...
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Incorrect diff with multiple peer reviewed edits
If you take a look at edit number 2 and 3 here, you will notice notice that a change has been made that does not appear in the diffs.
I edited this post twice in a short period of time. Both times I ...
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Add an option for side-by-side diff before posting an edit
Now we have a nice side-by-side diff in the 'suggested edits' review pages, and as an option in edit history, could something similar be made available as an option when editing a post?
It wouldn't ...
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Could the change from an edit be displayed in a side-by-side display
Being a foreign language speaker (or writer and reader to be more exact) I would prefer to see the changes in a side by side diff tool.
The current format with the two above each other doesn't make ...
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View history of changes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does Editing work in Stack Overflow?
How do I view the changes made to a question, in the SO-style visual diff?
I'm sure I've seen this before, but the "history" button ...
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