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Feature request: "confirm comment submission" option
I constantly hit the "Enter" key in the middle of writing a comment, usually when moving my hand over to my mouse. To avoid this, I'd love it if there were an option in settings to require a confirmation before any comments are actually submitted. It shouldn't be required, but it would be helpful for me personally.
...enter submits a comment for you? I just get a new line.
I'm having trouble reproducing it now, but whenever I click out of the box, the Enter key on my keypad usually posts the comment (the normal one doesn't). If I'm holding Ctrl, e.g. if I'm about to Ctrl+Tab, and then accidentally hit Enter as I move to use the mouse, it will also post the comment.
Ah yeah, Ctrl-Enter submits a comment. The focus would still need to be inside the comment box when you push it.
I would like an option to change the "Post Comment" button into a "Preview Comment" button. I always find typos after posting. hahaha
I would definitely use this. Sometimes I remember to check myself and switch to the preview (which I love is a feature at all, saved me so many bad links) but if it was an option to always switch views and then submit I'd love it even more.
I'm only getting the functionality you describe if I tab to select "post".
It's not a replacement for the requested functionality, but you can edit a comment in the first few minutes without it showing as having been edited, and almost no one is checking so frequently as to catch that you changed things. It's not a replacement for the requested feature, but clicking the edit button and carrying on should have the same basic outcome. It happened to me in this very comment.
Yeah, I do that pretty often. But some of my comments take a long time to write, so I'd rather delete than try to edit it quickly if my ideas aren't fully formed yet. The comment being posted also still sends a notification to whoever made the post I'm replying to, even if most people on the front page won't see it. :P
I would click Edit on the accidental comment, Ctrl-A Ctrl-C (select all, copy), and then delete it. Then just start a new comment and paste in the text from the original. That will get rid of the unfinished comment and the notification, and let you continue where you were.