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23 questions linked to/from Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form
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How do comment @replies work?
How do the comment replies (aka "pinging users") work?
Who can I send an @reply to?
How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment?
Will they be notified?
What do people mean ...
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Comment UI is not friendly enough [closed]
I am new to Stack Overflow, and have quickly found that the comment box (that is, commenting on someone's answer/suggestion) is really, really, really bad.
Reasons why:
Hitting Enter while typing ...
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Should the "Enable keyboard shortcuts" user setting disable ALL custom keyboard shortcuts on a site?
Since July 2009 the community is asking for a way to disable the editor keyboard shortcuts.
Since September 2010 many people are asking to disable comment submitting on Enter.
Since July 2014 ...
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Allow to submit an answer with Ctrl + Enter
As far as I can tell, whenever I try to submit an answer with Ctrl + Enter, it doesn't work. As this is allowed on edits, reviews, and question asks I would be very happy to see this on answers too.
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Can someone explain OpenID on this site?
The reason I never used this website is that it has always been impossible to log into. That includes Stack Exchange, which I don't understand at all. I originally signed up with OpenID, but it is a ...
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Why can you type new lines in comments if they are never rendered?
In the comment box, you can type new lines, but they are never rendered. This can trick people into thinking that they can separate text into paragraphs, when this is not possible.
I think that when ...
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Pressing <Enter> in an input method editor should not submit comments
Suppose I want to type the following comment:
The character for sun is 日, while the character for moon is 月.
To do this, I would type the following sequence of characters:
The character for sun ...
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Confirming context menu entries via Enter when entering comments triggers comment to be posted
related: Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form
While I'm not basically against this feature, it is annoying to press Enter from the context-menu (e.g. when verifying my spelling via ...
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Comment submission broken for comments that end with @username
Sometimes I want to post comments that include @-notifications but can't work the names into the comment text organically. In those cases, I write my comment out and then tack on a @JohnDoe at the end,...
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Improved IME Handling is now active
In the past there was an issue (reported for example on the Japanese Language Meta) where pressing the Enter key to select an IME suggestion would also submit the comment.
The good news is that we ...
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User setting for Enter key submit-behavior
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Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form
Right now pressing Enter auto-submit comments and some other forms - but not others. When writing a technical answer you could ...
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Edit Comment- Default post by pushing return key is annoying [duplicate]
Sounds trivial, I know. But you are working on the text of your comment. In a small space. So the natural reaction is to get a new line by hitting the return key. Wham, your half completed comment is ...
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When, if ever, should voting override answer acceptance for answer sorting?
The accepted answer always appears at the top of the list, regardless of sort order. This can be misleading if the question author accepted an invalid solution and a better solution was proposed later,...
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Hitting Enter in another browser window may also submit your comment on SO
Not the same as this, but probably even worse, it's undesired behavior: when your browser asks you if you want to close a window and you confirm by hitting Enter, that key hit also gets intercepted by ...
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Pressing enter in a comment field should generate a warning text rather than submitting the comment
There are a small handful of people that are confused by line breaks when writing comment not appearing when the comment is submitted.
There are a large number of people that find having enter submit ...
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