This suggested edit, while a useful one, only edits a single character in the answer. How did it manage to bypass the minimum 'edit size' of 6 characters?
When I try to change just the 'B' to a 'C' as an anonymous user, I'm unable to:
Meta Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this communityThis suggested edit, while a useful one, only edits a single character in the answer. How did it manage to bypass the minimum 'edit size' of 6 characters?
When I try to change just the 'B' to a 'C' as an anonymous user, I'm unable to:
I've been able to shed some light on this by comparing the Markdown of the two revisions with this SEDE query. The old revision has Unix line endings (just \n
) while the new one has Windows line endings (\r\n
):
It's understandable that the diff doesn't show any difference, but I always thought whitespace was ignored when it came to the character limit. In this particular case, it isn't, and I was able to submit a suggested edit appearing to change nothing here.
(Note: an earlier version of the query only worked if the suggested edit was actually accepted; the new one is also easier since it only needs the review task ID.)