Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:38:51 UTC
while editing, anything can happen (you make too much modification to remember, do an accidental modification, etc.) the sole way to be sure you have made the modification you was thinking of is to have, *before committing*, the possibility to make a diff of what you are currently modifying it would be presented as another button (in addition of "save page" and "show preview") with a name such as "diff with current"
adds unnecessary complexity and would be IMO not used very much. Please keep the software simple (I think a warning during preview that someone else has changed the page is needed by much more people).
*** Bug 158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) > while editing, anything can happen (you make too much modification to remember, > do an accidental modification, etc.) > the sole way to be sure you have made the modification you was thinking of is to > have, *before committing*, the possibility to make a diff of what you are > currently modifying > it would be presented as another button (in addition of "save page" and "show > preview") with a name such as "diff with current" This is particularly useful for helping proofread contributed content, especially when making a few substantive changes to a long article. This was the first feature request a friend made, right after I convinced her to start contributing to WP.
Could always be made a preference (although that adds complexity too), but first the diff bugs should be fixed so that we can actually _trust_ the diff.
I agree that this would be very useful. More than half the time I edit I go to the diff page afterwards to make sure I didn't screw something up. You can accidently do a lot without realizing it. Someone once edited the Capacitor article and somehow copied the entire article twice into the edit box and saved it. So there were two copies of the article in one article, and people started changing the bottom version and the top version independently without realizing there were two, which made it difficult to merge the two sections back together. Also sometimes people insert special characters without HTML entities which then get eaten by other browser's text edit boxes, etc.
I would also like to see this implemented, probably as a Preference. Sometimes I'll be editing 5 or 6 articles simultaneously, while looking through an additional 5-10 articles/categories for information -- one thing just naturally leads to another and another... Under those circumstances it's often quite difficult to remember every change I've made to every article when I finally finish my edits. A "diff-before-submit" feature would be *most* appreciated.
Created attachment 248 [details] Patch for Language.php (2005-02-02 HEAD revision) First of four patches that implement preview with diff.
Created attachment 249 [details] Patch for DefaultSettings.php (2005-02-02 HEAD revision) Second of four patches that implement preview with diff.
Created attachment 250 [details] Patch for EditPage.php (2005-02-02 HEAD revision) Third of four patches to implement preview with diff.
Created attachment 251 [details] Patch for SpecialPreferences.php (2005-02-02 HEAD revision) Fourth of four patches to implement preview with diff.
Fixed in CVS HEAD (aka 1.5)
Wahey! Party!
Marking it as FIXED.
