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After making an edit to an answer (in this case an answer of my own on Collab) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately prev...
#2: Post edited
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trichoplax
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2025-01-04T20:01:41Z (6 days ago)
Be more specific
After making an edit to an answer (in this case [an answer of my own on Collab](https://collab.codidact.org/posts/280451/287707#answer-287707)) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit. I changed this to describe my current edit and saved. I then pressed Edit to make a third edit and the Edit Comment field was again populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit (this time the comment of my second edit).- It appears that a draft of the previous edit has been loaded, despite that edit having been already saved. This seems to be the same content (since the final state of the previous edit is identical to the current state of the post) but it means an incorrect Edit Comment is showing, which will be applied to the edit when it is saved if the user does not realise. Since edit comments are optional this seems likely to happen in some cases.
- Pressing Cancel and then pressing Edit again resulted in an empty Edit Comment field. It seems that pressing Cancel discards the draft, but saving the edit does not (at least in the 2 examples of editing this particular answer today).
- After making an edit to an answer (in this case [an answer of my own on Collab](https://collab.codidact.org/posts/280451/287707#answer-287707)) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit. I changed this to describe my current edit and saved. I then pressed Edit to make a third edit and the Edit Comment field was again populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit (this time the comment of my second edit today).
- It appears that a draft of the previous edit has been loaded, despite that edit having been already saved. This seems to be the same content (since the final state of the previous edit is identical to the current state of the post) but it means an incorrect Edit Comment is showing, which will be applied to the edit when it is saved if the user does not realise. Since edit comments are optional this seems likely to happen in some cases.
- Pressing Cancel and then pressing Edit again resulted in an empty Edit Comment field. It seems that pressing Cancel discards the draft, but saving the edit does not (at least in the 2 examples of editing this particular answer today).
#1: Initial revision
by
trichoplax
·
2025-01-04T20:00:53Z (6 days ago)
Draft of previous edit (including edit comment) loaded for new edit
After making an edit to an answer (in this case [an answer of my own on Collab](https://collab.codidact.org/posts/280451/287707#answer-287707)) I pressed Edit to make a further edit and the Edit Comment field was populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit. I changed this to describe my current edit and saved. I then pressed Edit to make a third edit and the Edit Comment field was again populated with the comment of my immediately previous edit (this time the comment of my second edit). It appears that a draft of the previous edit has been loaded, despite that edit having been already saved. This seems to be the same content (since the final state of the previous edit is identical to the current state of the post) but it means an incorrect Edit Comment is showing, which will be applied to the edit when it is saved if the user does not realise. Since edit comments are optional this seems likely to happen in some cases. Pressing Cancel and then pressing Edit again resulted in an empty Edit Comment field. It seems that pressing Cancel discards the draft, but saving the edit does not (at least in the 2 examples of editing this particular answer today).