Questions tagged [editing]
For questions about either API methods for editing posts, or for tools/apps/scripts that enhance the editing experience.
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Better handling of indentation and the TAB key when editing posts
About
This user script changes the behavior of a few keys (most notably the Tab key) within the post editor to behave more like it does in IDEs or text editors:
When multiple lines are selected, Tab ...
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OBSOLETE - SE Editor Toolkit
Looking for Maintainer
I have not had the capacity to maintain this project in any meaningful way, but the source code is quite clear and reasonably well documented. If you would be interested to ...
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<kbd>, Superscript and Subscript, markup shortcuts
About:
This script adds buttons and keyboard shortcuts that make it easy to add/remove:
<kbd> tags
Superscripts and subscripts
<del> tags
<br> tags
 
when editing posts.
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Dude, where's my cursor?
About
This user script makes it easier to edit long questions and answers by doing the following things:
It constrains the height of the Markdown preview to 500 pixels by default, so you can see the ...
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MathJax Buttons
Adds some math/science buttons to the editor on science SE sites. These buttons are useful for converting selected text to math, formatting SI units, and formatting chemical equations. There are also ...
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Stack Exchange Editor Toolkit
This userscript is a revival of sorts for the old SE Editor Toolkit, which was abandoned some time ago.
It only really provides the autocorrect aspect for the foreseeable future, which I find to be ...
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Stack Exchange Side-By-Side Edit and Preview
Note: the new inline editing breaks this user script pretty seriously, so it doesn't work at the moment. I will be working on fixing it to work with the new system when I get a chance, but it may take ...
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SE like I like it userscript
About
Here's yet another Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey userscript for Stack Exchange. It adds the following enhancements:
Within preformatted code blocks, double-click to select all.
In the post ...
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Get Comment markdown, copy comment code to clipboard
About:
This userscript adds flyover buttons to every comment to fetch that comment's code (markdown).
Reference this post, and this post on Meta Stack Overflow.
Features:
The markdown is paste-...
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Increase/Decrease Indentation Buttons for the Editor
Some people, myself included, thought that buttons to adjust the indentation of code blocks would be useful, since apparently such buttons in all likelihood won't be implemented offically i tried to ...
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Editor buttons for injecting documentation links
I wrote a small user script for adding some buttons to the question editor. The idea came up a few times on Meta Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow, and I just wanted to share a rough version to get ...
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OBSOLETE - See the SOX post -- Side By Side Editing [duplicate]
This script no longer works and is no longer supported. See the Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) for this functionality.
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About
This userscript adds a button to the editor toolbar ('Toggle ...
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Stack Exchange Improvements - Sticky top bar, new text editor, and more
About
This chrome extension replaces the text editor with a much better one that supports markdown, indentation, code formatting, and more! Also provides options for making the top bar sticky, and ...
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StackOverflow-Steroids - A Chrome extension to introduce (and test) new features on Stack Overflow faster
I've previously complained about the bad usability that Stack Exchange sites can have and created a Chrome extension to help test possible fixes. It did not attract much attention.
Now I've added a ...
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Dragon: an automatic editor
Placeholder removal
While the placeholder tags have been removed, this project is still very much experimental - Dragon now works, but it doesn't always work well. Common sense while using is still ...
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Inline editor regardless of reputation
The following simple script provides an ability to edit any posts inline regardless of reputation (works if logged out also).
Download / view code
Screenshot from there:
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Suggested Edits Queue for Mere Mortals
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This Java command-line app gives you access to the Suggested
Edits queue using the
Stack Exchange 2.0 API. It is ideally
suited for users in the 2000 <= reputation < 5000 ...
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Suggested Edit Queue v2.0
The Sales Pitch
This user script enhances the suggested edit queue to remove the usability annoyances we all know and love hate.
Suggested Edits will not jump to the top when casting the deciding ...
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Stack Overflow Snippets for Sublime Text
About:
This is a utility for the Sublime Text editor.
Press Shift + Ctrl + H in your Sublime Text, enter a search query, and get code snippets from the matched questions.
Screenshot / Code Snippet:
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MEHF - tool for quickly testing code snippets, with StackOverflow support
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About
MEHF is partway between an IDE and a REPL. (The name "MEHF" is partway between "IDE " and "REPL.") It's designed to offer quick testing of code ...
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Stack Exchange WYSIWYG Editor
Markdown is great! But WYSIWYG editors are really useful - no waste of screen space by having the preview underneath what you're typing, no accidents with markdown: You see what you get! So, I made a ...
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Math buttons for sites without MathJax support
Download
View source or install (you will need a plugin like GreaseMonkey for this).
What it does
For sites that don't have MathJax support, but occasionally need math, HTML codes like ∩ ...
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Edit summary options
Description
Gives you little checkboxes above the edit summary with preset options like "formatted code" or "removed signature."
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Userscript
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/184914
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Request for script, or fix, to add Edit-Reason checkboxes
I've found a Stack Exchange userscript which looks GREAT - it would make things so much easier for me:
The Edit summary options script
Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all! I'm not sure why.
My ...
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Script to dynamically expand the Q/A text field
I'm searching for a script to (vertically) expand the text field in questions and answers as I type.
I personally prefer seeing all content at once (while the area can be extended by manually dragging,...
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Markdown Shortcuts for StackExchange - insert latex commands quickly by keybindings
About
This userscript gives users quick key bindings to speed up the process of editing mathjax/chem/etc. into posts.
Example usage:
Pressing Alt+I would insert \pi directly.
Pressing Alt+R would ...
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Stack Exchange Editor Extra: a userscript to add extra features to the Markdown Editor
Stack Exchange Editor Extra
A userscript which adds extra features to the default SE Markdown Editor.
Extra features:
Insert code with Ace Editor (alt + a)
Find & Replace (with modifiers) (alt+ ...
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Force Edit suggested reviews
Review edits have the option to force edit, which will edit the original post, as opposed to improve which will edit the suggested edit.
UserScript:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Force edit ...
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Auto-Editor: a user script for automatically correcting common errors
About
This user script adds a button when editing Stack Exchange sites that automatically fixes many common grammar, spelling, capitalization, and usage errors.
Installation
Install a user script ...
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CDNSaver - never look for a CDN link twice
Screenshot / Code Snippet
About
Stack Snippets provides a great shortcut for popular library CDN links via the dropdowns on the left sidebar. However, it's uncustomizable, and when it comes to ...
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Three Columns - Displays the question page, post textarea, and post preview in side-by-side columns
Three Columns ( install ) (github)
This is a userscript which allows those with reasonably wide monitors to make the most of their screen real-estate when posting, by making the question, ...
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Display tag excerpt tooltips when editing a question
There's a 25-score question on MSE with the same title requesting this feature.
The obvious solution: create a userscript to do it. :)
You can install the script by clicking here.
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Can Stack Exchange include the number of edits a user has made on a site in /users/<id>/edits?
Originally, I wrote:
In the old review queue, users could see their progress towards the Copy Editor and Strunk and White badges, but since the new review queues were implemented, this information ...
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When asking/answering a question on SE sites; Is there a way to fix the page in place so that you only see the displayed output as you type?
I am a touch typist and would like to know if there exists a way to type a question\answer with all the necessary formatting without the page automatically scrolling back up to where you input the ...
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How can a userscript detect when a post's been edited in place, so that it can do stuff to the newly edited post?
I recently built a userscript for Board Games Stack Exchange. On page load, it scans questions and answers for certain plaintext patterns and replaces them with some HTML, making the posts prettier.
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Why does dropdown comes in "Rev" when we edit published app?
I have published an app and editing it. One new "Rev" tab is created and it is giving me a dropdown as shown here. Why it is being created here? It is not created in any other Stack Exchange websites ...
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Unicode Char Counter - a userscript for making SE's character counter aware of non-ASCII chars 🤦♂️
Screenshot / Code Snippet
Live preview of the new counter:
The counter also preserves the "heatmap" colour coding:
About
Disclaimer: please note that the script will not allow you to ...
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Stack Snippet Lag Fixer
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Inspired by this question on SO Meta. Sometimes, when posting or editing posts with one or more Stack Snippets, the editor requires a lot of resources to continuously re-render the post preview. ...
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Auto Format code snippets
Is it possible to auto format code so you don't have to go to each line and space 4 times?
For example I know about the 'enter code here' but that doesn't always work correctly!
It should be ...
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IPA Keyboard for Linguistics.SE
This script adds an IPA keyboard button to the editing toolbar
Installation
Click here to install. Will only work in Chrome or Firefox (the latter requires Greasemonkey). See this page if you have ...
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Should HTML or Markdown be passed to /questions/{id}/edit?
I'm making an app that supports editing questions. Should HTML or Markdown source be passed to the body parameter of /questions/{id}/edit?
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Suggested edit not returned by API
This suggested edit: https://dba.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/20375 is not returned by the /suggested-edits/{ids} API call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/suggested-edits/20375?site=dba ...
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Looking for a script to show countdown timer below posts for easier edits
On Stack Exchange sites, edits that are made within 5 minutes of posting a question or answer aren't counted. This is called the grace period.
For example, if you post a new answer, and edit it after ...
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API to submit a Suggested Edit
Is there a way of using the API to submit a suggested edit?
This would allow users without the edit privilege to at least submit their suggestion.
There is no create/add endpoint listed in the docs ...
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`last_editor` is missing but `last_edit_date` is present?
Some posts (questions or answers) have a last_edit_date but no last_editor. Does this always mean that the post was last edited by the post owner?
Example: stackapps.com/a/3891/
PS: This issue came ...
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Is there any API or documentation that would help my adding functionality to Q&A textareas?
I'm writing an userscript that should add some functionality to the main textarea (WMD) used to post and edit answers and questions. The functionality will usually need to do things like insert text ...
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How do you list you stack exchange apps
I wanted to know how you're supposed to get a list of apps you've registered on the stack exchange api.
I finally managed to find this url: https://stackapps.com/apps/oauth
My question is this: How ...
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A userscript to disable the auto-scrolling when clicking on the preview area of SE editor
About
This userscript addresses the issue described in detail in this Meta.SE post.
After this userscript is installed, the auto-scrolling behavior of the SE editor will be completely disabled (not ...
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Improve error message when attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation
When attempting to edit a post while not having enough reputation, like happened here: API to submit a Suggested Edit, the API returns the following:
{
"error_id": 407,
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Wrong error message when attempting to edit a locked answer
When attempting to edit a locked answer like this one via the /answers/{id}/edit API method, I get an error message:
Account is not allowed to suggest edits
I have the privilege to edit the post, ...
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