Stack Overflow - Edit Summary Quicklinks
I requested a feature to make the few edit summary suggestions clickable. I, like many developers, don’t normally let my keys leave the keyboard. However, this was one case where I felt making those suggestions of “corrected spelling” and “fixed grammar” should automatically be inserted.
Well the suggestion was declined. I can’t blame the team. Nobody upvoted the suggestion. But I felt strongly enough about it, and knew that it was very simple to implement that I whipped up a GreaseMonkey script to do it myself. The script runs like a charm and even adds a few extra suggestions to the original three. It handles formatting and commas all automatically, so don’t worry about a thing, just click. Enjoy!
Script to Add Edit Summary Quicklinks
Script to Prevent Blank Edit Summaries
UPDATE: Fixed to use keng’s URL and added just plain old stackoverflow.com without the beta sub-domain in preparation for a launch. Thanks keng!
DOUBLE UPDATE: Sam put out a “wanted ad” for a Greasemonkey script to prevent blank edit summaries. I whipped that script up and linked to it up above. Thanks Sam! Quick Demo
5. September 2008 um 13:25
I like this but when i go to edit one of my own posts the only clickable things are in the ‘tags’ section. note: i’m using this with a url of http://beta.stackoverflow.com/*/edit/*
rather than the one that ships (as i cannot edit other’s posts yet and i think that’s what your url indicates). Any way of adding my url?
Thanks.
5. September 2008 um 18:17
@keng: Thanks for the fix keng. I don’t know how I got that original URL or why it was working before, but you’re absolutely correct. Re-click on the link above and override your previous script and let me know how things go.
@all: Let me know if you have improvements or if you see changes. I’ll try to keep this updated.
6. September 2008 um 08:21
Excellent!!
works great, THANKS!
29. October 2008 um 18:18
Any chance you could add a feature to (optionally) stop you submitting an edit without filling in the summary?
If you do, please let us know here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow#248601
30. October 2008 um 00:45
Thanks for the idea Sam. I quickly implemented it and added a link in the article!
30. October 2008 um 08:39
I don’t like how it’s implemented. If you forget you have it installed you end up having an edit summary of “Don’t leave me blank” which is worst than the “Added X characters” message.
I’d prefer if it just highlighted the edit summary field without putting anything in it. Maybe some kind of “glow” effect.
30. October 2008 um 08:48
I’ve just commented out the line:
// editSummary.value = “Don’t Leave Me Blank!”
for now, but some way to draw your attention to the field other than your cursor going to it would be nice.
30. October 2008 um 09:59
Okay, that sounds good. I’ll try to get to that before or around the weekend. I actually took it on last night for some “fun” between classwork. I’ll let you know when its updated.
30. October 2008 um 23:58
Sam, the script has been updated to a Red Flash/Glow. I hope you like that much better. Can we improve this further. Is there any way that you would like to submit a blank value?
Maybe add a second button to “submit empty”?
31. October 2008 um 14:42
That’s perfect. Thanks!