Questions tagged [editor]
For questions about the standard editor for Stack Exchange posts, which supports a live preview of Markdown syntax.
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The keyboard shortcut E sometimes edits a post that isn't the post currently visible to the user
The keyboard shortcut E sometimes edits a post that isn't the post currently visible to the user. Example (I pressed E to edit) with this URL:
Tested with the latest version of Chrome on Windows 10.
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Which sites use citation helper?
On which sites is the citation helper enabled?
As far as I know, it was first introduced on MathOverflow: New feature - citation helper.
And it was later added to Mathematics Stack Exchange, too: Let'...
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Some JavaScript seems to not work: Can't ask questions and new editor not loading
I'm trying to ask questions (which uses the old editor), but pressing the "review your question" button does nothing. Checking "Answer your own question" does nothing (except make ...
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In Chrome, using chrome://flags/ : #enable-force-dark causes the input textarea scrollbar to be nearly invisible
In the following GIF, when an extra line is added to the input text, it becomes too large for the input area, so the browser adds a scrollbar. Unfortunately, the scrollbar is nearly the same color as ...
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Word is placed on a new line even if there's enough space on the old line
Is it expected behavior that words automatically moved to the next line even when there's enough space on the old line?
See animation below for clarification (no "return" key pressed during ...
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Why is the SE editor's undo function so unpredictable?
When you hit Ctrl+Z, the number of inputs you've entered that are undone seems pretty random.
In the latest example that brought me here, I was converting regular lines into a blockquote in this ...
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Blockquote reflows fenced code blocks
When using the ” button to blockquote someone else's words (presumably also when using Ctrl+Q, if that wasn't the browser quit key), the quoted material is reflowed, by design. I don't particularly ...
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What's the reason to use completely different and new post editor on moderator election page?
Currently the moderator election on RuSO is in progress. The page for nominee introduction uses completely different editor (seems like the same as used for SO for Teams) compared with the regular QA ...
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Draft answers. Is there an offline editor? [duplicate]
Several people have asked questions about draft answers and, like me, been surprised to discover that there is any saving of draft answers by Stack Exchange. On the other hand, the answer to this post ...
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Unable to translate "Insert" and "Cancel" buttons on insert link popup while editing the tag description
Editor used for modifying tag description has an (very) old design. In that design it's not possible to make translations for buttons "Insert" and "Cancel":
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MathJax processing issue - Strange behavior in the editor of "\:" in a formula
I noticed that in some posts, the code of the equations ends with "\:.", but nor "\:", nor ":" themselves appear in the rendered equation (see, e.g., this answer). ...
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Inline tag edits are rejected on switch to full edit mode
On 10k reputation you get inline tag edit possibility. But this edits are rejected on switching to full edit mode. E.g.:
Before inline tag edit there are tags: bug comment voting:
In inline tag edit ...
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How can I quickly/easily edit all posts with a given tag, to change some to use a different tag?
Example:
On Emacs there's long been a tag, auto-complete-mode, which corresponds to a particular (now old) Emacs package autocomplete.el and its command/mode auto-complete-mode.
For several years now, ...
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Editor heartbeat gives a 409 - Conflict sometimes
Yesterday, while writing a question, I saw errors in the console. They were caused by a failed heartbeat call by the editor, which returned a 409:
I'm not sure under which circumstances they happen, ...
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Add Table Generator link as part of the help in SO Editor for generating tables using markdown format or embed it in the SO Editor
This feature request was posted in Meta Stack Overflow, it was pointed out that this feature (adding the Table Generator link or embedding the tool) was not considered in the new version of the SO ...
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