Edit - Meta Stack Exchange

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

maybe you want to work on this, then stackapps.com/questions/2209/se-editor-toolkit
– Jeff Atwood
Commented Apr 26, 2012 at 16:18
1

@JeffAtwood looks nice, but not exactly what I suggested, I tried to install it and till now I didn't get it to work.
– stema
Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 7:14
1

It seems that this "se-editor-toolkit" is broken since the introduction of inline editing and it is not maintained anymore.
– stema
Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 8:17
1

I don't think it would be that hard to detect that the original had changed when a page with a draft-edit was reloaded. In theory, it could offer a 3-way-merge between the original, the new version, and your draft version, to rebase your draft onto the new version. I sometimes leave draft-edits open for a long time on my desktop, and recently lost some work I was doing to improve one of my own answers. Several of my answers attempt to be thorough, and I sometimes go back and improve them when I learn new things or want to improve their layout.
– Peter Cordes
Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 14:14
But what if the computer or the browser crashes while editing? I recently spent a lot of time improving substantially an answer and when I was almost done, my computer crashed so now I have to start my edit all over again. I think something should be done about it.
– Donald Duck
Commented Feb 11, 2017 at 11:53

Add a comment |

Correct minor typos or mistakes
Clarify meaning without changing it
Add related resources or links
Always respect the author’s intent
Don’t use edits to reply to the author

create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)

<https://example.com>

[example](https://example.com)

<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

formatting help »
answering help »