Fixing whitespace in a post doesn't work.
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Bug: Editing a post only slighty (like fixing a typo) and then trying to resubmit it, will not work: it complains the post is too similar.
Expected result: If I fix a typo, it should store that.
Actual result: It refuses, because it thinks a one-letter difference is not enough of a difference. If ninja-edit isn't there to fix typos then what is it for?
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Changing a single character does in fact work -- changing whitespace only is currently rejected.
Feel free to test in the try.discourse.org sandbox as needed.
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changing whitespace only is currently rejected.
That's still a bug.
Because if I type "That's still ab ug", I should be able to fix that.
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Workaround: just slap
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at the end.
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changing whitespace only is currently rejected
... but why? So I edit a post and add some whitespace. Is that actually a problem in any universe?
This seems like a classic example of trying to save users that don't need to be saved - warning me that my edit may not actually be editing anything. But who cares? So they save it, realize their "mistake", and try again? Let me save a post with zero changes if I want.
Feature request: reject any post that is filed less than 20 seconds after the edit window was opened. I bet those users probably didn't think long enough about what they were going to say, so we should let them know that they might want to do some more quiet reflection on their grammar.
Condescending toaster optional as time permits.
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The whitespace thing has popped up quite a few times though. Actually saw a legit whitespace fix here we rejected
@ bob
was corrected to@bob
...I wonder if this whitespace thing really is worth the effort of explaining it. I dunno.
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The whitespace thing has popped up quite a few times though. Actually saw a legit whitespace fix here we rejected
@ bob
was corrected to@bob
...I wonder if this whitespace thing really is worth the effort of explaining it. I dunno.
I think @codinghorror's post was directed at the FR of listing the editors by the edited post.
Filed under: once again proving quotes help estabilishing context
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Just trying to keep this on topic :)
The FR is also the first I have heard, though moving this back offtopic the draft FR I heard few times now and would use it myself.
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I'm looking at the code, and I can't tell whether it's possible --
Can we hash the cooked post contents, instead of the raw post contents? Then don't bother removing whitespace, because any whitespace that actually matters will result in different cooked html.
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I wonder if keeping this whitespace bug really is worth the effort of explaining it. I dunno.
FTFY
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I moved 11 posts to a new topic: Should mod edits be highlighted more?
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This post remains blue in my notifications (moved by @codinghorror). I must have clicked it 15 times by now.
It clears the highlight until I reload, then it's back.
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Yeah, its a bug, there is no way to clear those at the moment, on the upside the blue (1) circle goes away but I can see this completely messing with ones OCD
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This should now be fixed as we do not strip spaces from the hash of the post we compare.
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