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Quite simple question: Why can't I respond to a user who edited my answer/question using @reply syntax?

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You can respond to a user who edited your post using the @reply syntax. Quoting from How do comment @replies work?:

Notifications apply to the author, users with active bounties, commenters (associated to current non-deleted comments), and editors of the question or answer that you are commenting on

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It just doesn't include their name in the auto-completion box, that is all. The same FAQ page states:

Tab name completion can be used, and that knows when @name is unnecessary and will then not automatically complete names. It also does not work for editors.

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  • OK, any reason why it's not included in auto-completion?
    – MarcinJuraszek
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 12:30
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    To not clutter the autocompletion list? It is rarely needed and mostly would confuse matters. Wait, what? Who is this Martijn dude?! Oh, he edited my post at some point.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 12:31
  • Probably also because we want to discourage people from doing this in the majority of cases. It would just get abused for things like @MartijnPieters Y U DOWNVOTE ME & CLOSE MY QUESTION??! if Martijn was one of the kind souls who tried to edit the question into shape.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 13:23

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