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Should the default edit summaries be in sentence case?
I'm not entirely au fait with the site's inner workings so I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature-request or if it's actually status-bydesign, hence the open question.1
The default edit summaries are ...
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Improve Community bot replacement edit summary
In the context of the Community bot URL replacement run addressed in 'Links to HTML versions of RFC's need to move from "tools" to "datatracker"' it became clear that the ...
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"Improve edit" should not copy the edit summary from the suggested edit [duplicate]
When you click the "Improve edit" button when reviewing a suggested edit, your edit will be applied as a separate edit on top of the suggested edit, which will be approved. The edit summary ...
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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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Allow editing the edit summary [duplicate]
I just made an edit and saved it without giving it an edit summary. The default summary was
added 24 characters in body
I made another edit to the same post within 5 minutes, this time changing ...
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Setting a default Edit summary
I usually edit the formatting of the posts so I mostly add "Fixed formatting".
Can there be a way to set this as the default edit summary so that, whenever I am editing a post, this text will be ...
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Including a quick drop-down list of possible changes in edit summary [duplicate]
More often than not, people edit other's questions to rephrase the question for clarity, fixing grammar, corrections of spellings, adding MathJax, reformatting to improve readability, removing ...
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Change the prompt "Edit Summary" to something more appropriate
After making an edit to someone else's post, there is a small yet relevant text box with the prompt "Edit Summary". This clearly suggests that you supply a shortened version of your edit. It has ...
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Allow moderators to edit the edit summary after an edit has exited the grace period [duplicate]
Very occasionally, users leave edit summaries which are downright inappropriate. At present, the best we can do in such instances is to contact a Stack Exchange employee and ask for a revision purge, ...
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Please save my edit summary when edited within grace period [duplicate]
Steps to reproduce:
Edit the body of any post.
Edit it again immediately, but only modify the edit summary.
Check the revisions page.
The original edit summary will be retained. A user has to edit ...
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Edit Summary reminder
Background
I usually want to include a short edit summary for all of my edits. But I must confess, that I'm sometimes a little lazy and forget to enter a summary. This wasn't a problem, when I had ...
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Give me a blank Comment box when I am editing my post, below the "edit summary" field
When editing my question or answer, I want a blank "comment box" under the "edit summary" box.
The edit summary field is documented by answer https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/84708/242736 to explain "...
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Take most recent (or concatenate) edit comments when editing during grace period
Recently, I edited one of my answers to update a link to a better resource. I clicked "Save" without entering a description of the edit (edit #1).
Then I realised that the question was asked by a new ...
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What's with the 10-char min for edit summaries?
This has always annoyed the hell out of me, because sometimes I'm just fixing a 1 or 2 character typo that made the title harder to read, and the best summary is "typo", and the edit is obvious if you ...
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Selector for comment when editing
I think it could be a good idea to have a selector instead of a textfield when providing comments after editing a post.
The reason is that (I think) the majority of these edits are either:
corrected ...
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