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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
keng on September 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm #
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.