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[Regression] Save dialog clears its contents on each open, making progressively writing the summary impossible
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At one time it was possible to make an edit, put that in the edit summary, go on to make further edits without saving. When returning to the save dialogue, the edit summary would have been retained so it could be added to. This is no longer the case, on return the edit summary is blank (other than the subhead).

This seriously detracts from the usability of VisEd. It is already a step backwards that one has to come away from the page to the dialogue to add the edit summary. For me at least, this means I won't be using VisEd as long as direct editing remains available.

Monobooks/Firefox 39.0/Windows 7

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Facility for incremental edit summary has been lost in current version to [Regression] Save dialog clears its contents on each open, making progressively writing the summary impossible.Aug 11 2015, 7:12 PM
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Change 230848 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Don't reset edit summary every time we open the save dialog

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230848

Change 230848 merged by jenkins-bot:
Don't reset edit summary every time we open the save dialog

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/230848

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