Maniphest T6716

Edit summary box should be a multiline input
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MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE, Anomie, Xeriphas1994 and 4 others

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bzimport, Jan 22 2006

Description

Author: avarab

Description:
The edit page should be changed to accommodate larger edit summaries:

The text input area needs to be changed fron <inputbox type="text"> to <textarea>

Optional:

The textarea should auto-expand when entering a larger summary (JS)
The textarea should have some sort of live-preview of the summary (since it uses a limited subset of wikisyntax) (JS)
The textarea should use autocomplete, most (all) browsers don't have this on for <textarea>

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Reference: bz4716

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:03 PM

bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.

bzimport set Reference to bz4716.

bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

bzimport created this task.Jan 22 2006, 8:45 AM

Using a <textarea> for summary will break keyboard workflow:
"enter" will no longer work to save.

trevj wrote:

Disabling "Enter" to save may actually be a benefit, because editors are encouraged to use the 'Show preview' function:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing#Show_preview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-preview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:That%27s_why_we_preview,_kids

If this is changed, are there any related database limitations?

awight merged a task: T99944: Edit summary box should be a multiline input.May 21 2015, 7:38 PM

awight added subscribers: kaldari, awight, Aklapper.

Xeriphas1994 added a subscriber: Xeriphas1994.Feb 27 2016, 9:37 PM

The title from T99944 was more descriptive, let's use that one.

MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE added a subscriber: MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE.Mar 2 2018, 3:01 PM

MGChecker added a project: MediaWiki-Comment-backend.Nov 12 2018, 7:45 PM

MGChecker removed a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.Nov 15 2018, 9:46 PM

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Krinkle added a subtask: T6715: Allow comments longer than 255 bytes.Feb 8 2019, 6:49 PM

DannyS712 updated the task description. (Show Details)Wed, Jul 24, 9:09 PM