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Why is the edit link displayed but is uneditable?
Recently returned to active participation in Ask Different so bear with me if rules have changed.
Saw this post help i need help here which IMO needed editing.
Though the edit link is displayed, it's ...
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Problems with a question with some answers for iPhone 3G and then an edit to iPhone 3GS
We have a question that I've closed to see if it can be salvaged:
How to upgrade iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 now that iOS 6 is out?
It started out as can I upgrade an iPhone 3G to iOS 6 - where the answer ...
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overediting a post
What should we do if somebody over-edits our post?
e.g, my original post was not perfect, and I appreciate some of what was added, but the edit changed my position on the subject, made the question ...
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Checkbox to automatically resize a retina display screenshot
For users with the new MacBook Pro with retina display, screenshots have their dimensions doubled. For example, if I take a screenshot of a window, this is what I get:
As you can see, when the ...
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What's the best kind of edit summary?
I've seen "added 23 characters in body," "edited body," and "fixed capitalization in title." Which of these types of summaries (or another entirely) should we use?
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Why can't I suggest edits here on Meta?
I've been trying to edit a post here on Meta Ask Different, but the link is just not there.
How can I edit a post then? Why can't I do it? It works fine on the main site.
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Should I be changing titles from “How to…?” to “How can I/do I/should I…?”?
This was a question that I brought up in the chat room yesterday. I brought the question over here to meta so that all the answers from all the people could be put into one place.
The question is: ...
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Can we add a “minor edit” checkbox when editing a question/answer?
This is an extension of Should making edits bump a question to the top of the list?, which was asked yesterday. I have a tendency to edit a lot of question and answers, which bumps them to the top of ...
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Feature Request: Add editor buttons for symbols common to the subject
Feature Request: Add editor buttons for symbols common to the subject being discussed.
In the case of the Apple Stack Exchange, I wish to suggest some buttons for the editor to insert the common keys ...
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Put the ⌃⌥⇧⌘⎋⏏⌫↑⇡↖⇞⇥ characters somewhere for people to copy/paste
It would be easy and useful to put the most-commonly-used keyboard shortcut characters (such as ⌃⌥⇧⌘⎋⏏⌫↑⇡↖⇞⇥, and perhaps others — see here for a list, which you can also place at ~/Library/Key ...
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The edit link doesn't appear in a question
I noticed that I don't see the edit link in a question asked 2 hours ago, but I see the link in other questions, including the ones asked less than 2 hours ago.
Free backup software
How to clone a ...
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Automatically capitalizing: 'ithing' and 'Ithing' to 'iThing'
When I'm editing a post, one of the most common things that I end up doing* is fixing the capitalization of the names Apple's products, like in this question's title.
How would people feel about ...
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Editor button or shortcut for <kbd> tag?
I like the <kbd> tag. It's a quick way to let people know that you want them to press a keyboard shortcut.
However, I find my self just using the ` shortcut to set key commands to monospace ...
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Should we be more active with tag editing?
I have noticed more and more over the last couple of questions, that most of them only have 1 or 2 tags, and very little further expansion. Since tagging is a very big feature of Stack Exchange, and ...
