Reject and improve: please allow editing from the pre-suggested-edit version

Question

This is a continuation of Do we need a 'reject and improve' button?. In the previous episode, we obtained a way to say “the suggestion is not helpful, you don't get reputation for suggesting it”. But as a reviewer, when I see a suggested edit that is not helpful on a question that needs editing, I need to:

1. Click on "Improve".
2. Untick the “suggested edit was helpful” box.
3. Bring up the post source, copy the original source into the edit box.
4. Make the good edit I wanted to make.

Step 3 is really cumbersome. When a question has been edited before, there is a way to bring back the last published version (or any prior version), through the "Rev" box at the top of the page. But this box does not appear when the post has never been edited before.

Please show the revision list on every suggested edit improve page, or provide some other reasonable way of rejecting an edit and improving the post.

P.S. And please fix the UI annoyances. We don't have enough people reviewing suggested edits on Stack Overflow as it is; don't make it even less attractive than it could be.

Answer 1

This is now status-completed.

The "Improve" button has been split into two choices, "Improve Edit" and "Reject and Edit". The latter button will accomplish what you want, filling in the original revision so you can edit that.

As a side note, though, neither button contains the "suggested edit was helpful" checkbox anymore, so if you want to reject the suggested edit while still editing on top of it, you have to use the "Improve Edit" button and copy over the changes to the "Reject and Edit" form.

Answer 2

Starting from the original version appears to be the way this now works, however it's just as annoying when the suggestion was good and I wanted to start from that. This really needs to be a SWITCH for the improver. The "edit was helpful" checkbox would work just fine as far as I'm concerned. Move it to the top and make it choose between starting from the pre- or post-suggestion text.