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23 questions linked to/from Pressing Enter in comment box unexpectedly submits form
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What about allowing users to opt-in to new/experimental/beta changes?
With the recent removal of the envelope icon and the addition of the dropdown menu, there has been a lot of controversy about whether the change has been good or bad. I'm not here to complain, but to ...
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Comments are submitted when Enter key is pressed on a context menu item
I use Firefox. Firefox has a spell checker. I use keyboard Menu key, select the underlined incorrect word, press Enter to fix the misspelled word... my comment is submitted.
So I am forced to use the ...
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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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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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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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Line breaks not working in comments [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do comments work?
Stack Overflow comments don’t have formatting tags or line breaks?
I've been struggling for some time with adding line breaks to comments on SO. I ...
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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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Area 51 users have to press "Add Comment" to add comments
As of early September, the Enter key submits comments on most sites. I know there was some grumbling about this functionality at first, which is normal for UI changes, but it seems like most people ...
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What should I do when a moderator deletes my post? [duplicate]
If a moderator deletes your post, what does it imply (assuming that no reason was given for the deletion)? Are you "in trouble"? For instance, if it seems to have been deleted ...
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Cannot get to a new line by hitting Enter
I am using a Mac machine. I asked a question, and then, someone answered it.
I clicked "Edit" to add a comment, and I would like to press Enter to go to a new line, but doing so submitted my ...
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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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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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Suggestion for tweak to comment box "Press enter to add your comment"
This is a suggestion regarding this awesome new feature / evil UI bug (delete as appropriate).
Summary: pressing enter in the comment box submits the comment. This is not the intuitively expected ...
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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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