Follow-up Comment #5, sr #111305 (group administration): [comment #3 comment #3:] > I don't object to adding the ability to edit a comment's content > after posting. > > However, I think the proper fix to the complaint that precipitated > the request (the overlong URL) is the one I suggest in the newly > opened sr #111307. It shouldn't fall to the user to make sure a URL > in a comment displays reasonably. An algorithmic task like this is > what automation is for. I don't disagree with this. However, the issue of excessively long lines, with no obvious discretionary line break points, is far from the only issue for which a ticket editing capability would be beneficial; (indeed, the work-around implemented in response to sr #111307 offers a vast improvement for long URLs, although it may not help in any case of other very long entities with no specified line break opportunities).
That said, my own [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60927#comment13 comment #13], on that same https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60927 ticket mentioned in [comment #0 my original submission], illustrates a further issue, which a ticket editing capability could mitigate: that particular comment includes a less than obvious typo, (U+2009 where I intended U+200B). I'd love to be able to fix that, but without a ticket editing capability, I cannot do so. Perhaps less relevant on savannah, but FWIW, the most common reason for using this capability SourceForge, and on OSDN.net, was to correct the markup of code samples, posted by user who didn't bother to acquaint themselves with the appropriate markup conventions; I would encounter this in original ticket submissions, just as often as in follow up comments; the usual effect was that the code samples became unreadable, because elements of the code, which the users were trying to illustrate, would be interpreted as markup. Fortunately, correction was possible, because an editing capability was available to the original posters of malformed content, and to authorised project members. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?111305> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/
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