Questions tagged [editing]
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Does anyone know a good OCR tool online that we can use for screenshots?
I'm rather tired of barking at users not to post text as images. We all know the reasons why not to do this.
In the community minded spirit, I wonder if anyone knows a reliable OCR tool that could be ...
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Is it noise to ask "Could anybody help me?"
I proposed this edit suggestion (link to Q/A) and removed the trailing question "Could anybody help me?" as I thought it improved the quality of the question a bit.
I did find this guidance ...
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Is it considered appropriate to edit multiple answers of another user into a single answer?
Sometimes, users post multiple answers to the same question. (Examples: Boot taking forever with a 106 JBOD attached. - WARNING: Device /dev/xxx not initialized in udev database even after waiting ...
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Editing: command tools format
When I'm going to edit a Q/A, often I find that command tools such as awk, grep, sed are not highlighted or formatted in any way, even from high rep users (which could be just that they missed it).
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Cannot change tags of a particular question
I have tried to add the bashrc and bash-profile tags to How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server? but after clicking "save tag edits" the tags ...
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Confirm or rollback this edit
Here I (and someone else) have approved an edit into the most upvoted answer, which was suggested by comment at 2017, but later I saw that this edit (--progress) exists already in this answer from ...
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Why was this edit rolled back?
A while ago I edited this answer to include a brief description of the link. As I understand it, answers that are just links aren't recommended as the link could break or the contents could change. I ...
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Completely changed answer: edit or new answer?
In a recent post I changed my answer completely, so I edited it.
But then I thought that, being a "new" answer, it should be a separate one, so I posted a new answer. (I just let the previous one ...
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My question wasn't specific enough, but got I got the right answer anyway. How should I proceed?
I have a question about my Unix & Linux Stack Exchange post: Interpret variables from read in string with shell script
The question how I asked it (I tried to break it down to the relevant point) ...
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Editing other people's posts to remove "thanks"
[paraphrased position 1]
Generally, if people abstained from doing edits that are just removing "thanks" and context phrasing (without doing any other improvements), that would be great. I ...
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Editing questions recently put on hold (don't do trivial edits on recently closed questions)
I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.
Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were ...
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tutorials/guidelines on posting
I'd like to have some link on tutorials on how to post on this site.
Whenever I post something containing code someone else (possibly moderator)
is re-editing and re-formatting my post. Where can I ...
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Jeff Schaller-Why do you put your picture up on every edit?
I see the posters picture goe up but why do we havew someone who merely edits posts finding it necessary to get his picture out front big noting himself?
Thats a bit overboard from a moderator
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Guidelines for what's acceptable in terms of editing
On Unix & Linux I stumbled upon an ancient question with recent activity. I was trying to figure out why that was. I looked through it and its answers and saw recent edits.
In the revision ...
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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag
When editing a question with tag that isn't allowed, the message below is shown which incorrectly uses 'Your answer' instead of 'Your edit':
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
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