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Pressing enter in the edit reason field can inadvertently submit an edit suggestion
When writing an edit reason, I hit the Enter key by accident, and it submitted the edit. Could this behaviour be removed?
I did not have edit privileges. The edit was submitted to the review queue, ...
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Could comments be shown on the edit [question/answer] page?
A lot of Stack Exchange sites treat comments as "suggested improvements" for questions and answers they're posted on, and users/mods will often suggest incorporating content from comments into the ...
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Switch edit pencil direction for comments edited by other-than-attributed-author
In this discussion, the issue was raised that moderators' ability to edit comments sometimes results in a situation where a mod is putting words in a user's mouth or having them say something ...
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View summary of changes while editing [duplicate]
In the revision history of edited posts, there is a helpful display that highlights the changes between the edited and the original. Often, while editing, I find myself looking back at the original ...
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"improve tag wiki" should be greyed out like "edit" while banned from editing
I made a series of edit suggestions on meta over the past week to add a new tag, which were rejected. As a result, I'm banned from editing for the next 7 days. No complaints there.
I just clicked an "...
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Edits that end with title edits are easy to lose
I was in the middle of a really big edit on a question. I went to edit the title last, and then somebody else finished editing and the “click to load edit” bar shifted the whole page down and I ...
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Comment editing time limit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please ditch the five-minute window on comment editing
Why can a comment only be edited for 5 minutes? If errors cannot be corrected, then the site will remain cluttered. ...
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Why does the "An edit has been made to this post" appear above the ads?
I was sitting on a post on Stack Overflow, and due to my having less than 200 rep, I was staring at an ad. The post, however, was edited, and the bar popped up--above the ad, barely noticeable. Can ...
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Reduce visibility of the "edited" indicator on a question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are editor names displayed so prominently?
Currently, a question that has been edited appears as follows:
This is odd to me, because the fact that a question has been ...
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Have same font for preview pane as for edit box
I think one of the things that makes tricky stuff hard to format is that the preview pane uses a different font/size than the edit box.
Could we make these the same, so that we can get those fine ...
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When someone edits what you're editing, make a link back to the question
Recently I was editing a question and got a notification that someone else already edited it. Ok, that's neat. So I wanted to see what they edited so I didn't mess their edit up. I looked up and down ...
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Why are editor names displayed so prominently?
Ever since the editing restrictions were loosened a few months ago, I've started to edit posts in passing. It's always something simple, like code formatting or a grammar fix.
But does anyone (aside ...
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clicking on the preview box when trying to click on the edit box
Am I the only one who constantly finds myself looking at the preview text instead of the edit text and trying to click to edit it?
When I only have text in the edit box, the edit box and the ...
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Show reason for edit without clicking through to diff?
I think it would be nice to be able to see the reason for an edit without having to click through to the diff to view it. I think it would benefit users to be able to see at a glance whether the edit ...
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