Questions tagged [text]
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Cutting text from comments does not put text on the clipboard
Twice now, while typing up a comment on a question, my comment was too long, so I selected a portion of the text, tapped cut, posted the comment, then went into my notes app to save the cut text to ...
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Let's talk about phrasing of the “Protected Questions” message
Currently, the Protected message text reads:
Given that we now strive to become more welcoming to new users, shouldn't we change the phrasing to something that doesn't seem as hostile as the existing ...
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Text for Electorate gold badge is confusing & ambiguous [duplicate]
For observers, this particular badge creates confusion. Currently Electorate badge text shows like this:
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions.
Does it mean:
...
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Cannot add single line breaks in Questions
I can't seem to add a simple line break in the text of my question (this is on Blender S.E. but happens on other communities as well):
What I am trying to do is make a list where each sentence is on ...
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Text substitutions not working [closed]
It's common that I post an answer that includes keyboard shortcuts.
So if I type <kbd>K</kbd><kbd>E</kbd><kbd>Y</kbd><kbd>S</kbd> it shows up in the ...
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Comment Everywhere privilege text somewhat misleading
To new users I think the "Comment Everywhere" text used for that privilege might be a bit misleading.
To me it seems like the text leans towards having the ability to comment everywhere on all Stack ...
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Voting to *undelete* an answer tells me I can't *delete* it
Over on travel.SE I just tried to vote to undelete an ex-answer.
But up popped an error dialog telling me:
You cannot delete this post:
Obviously the text in the error dialog should match the ...
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Android App Text Encoding Bug (Unicode Symbols don't Display Properly) [duplicate]
Stack Exchange Android App
Version 1.0.63
Samsung Galaxy S4
SPH-L7200T
Android 5.0.1 Lollipop
There is a pretty odd bug I noticed today with the Stack Exchange App: certain Unicode strings do not ...
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Soft-hyphen hides subsequent text when using Opera 12.16
I saw this answer over at german.stackexchange.com and thought 'Hey, a typing error! Let's fix it.'
I went into edit mode and saw that the word is already written correctly: 'streichen'.
I am ...
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Scrolling bug in Android app
In the Android app the text of the answers become garbled if I scroll the screen when viewing a question.
It is as if new text is being overwritten over the still existing old text. Other text, such ...
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“not the room you are looking for?” text looks out of place
I just noticed this text in the Tavern:
not the room you are looking for?
After a few minutes, I realized that this text seems to be pointing to the "there are other rooms, with..." text. ...
asked Jan 7 '14 at 22:26
Undo - Reinstate Monica
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Broken links in the Close review queue [duplicate]
The text when reviewing Close Votes in /review is broken on ebooks.stackexchange.com as below:
This text is only visible when you click on the "more" link. Also replicated on MSO.
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“This user has no earned bounties” might be correct but sounds… weird
In the user profile page, there are the following sentences when the user has no questions or answers:
This user has not answered any questions
This user has not asked any questions
So far so ...
asked Apr 18 '13 at 7:24
Shadow The Princess Wizard
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How to format text containing underscore to italic style?
How to format a text containing underscore (like for instance "A_B") to italic style ?
Here's an example which fails in parsing somehow (from a quick test just on underscore):
A_B
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Wrong migration text for questions from meta.tex.sx
At Make clear which profile data is visible to whom it says:
The lower sentence is wrong, since we're talking about a meta site. The same problem appears for questions migrated from meta.tex.sx to ...
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Automatic capitalization of “i” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can 'u' and 'i' part ways?
I've observed that a significant number of people use i instead of "I"
Sample : i create a iframe to get acess token in facebook ...
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Remember height of textarea for edit/posting?
It would be nice if SO backend would save users preferenced height of THIS textearea (I'm writing there right now) for later use. I'bored about resizing it everytime I access editor
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Improvements to the prefilled content of the Tweet this button
I am changing the prefilled text for Twitter every time, for example this prefilled text
Stack Exchange User Experience Q: Hide or disable form options? http://t.co/zKpRWkG
I mainly make more use ...
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Does stack overflow use LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) to generate the list of related questions
I am building a website for tagging/titling fragments of text content from our archive of transcribed discourses. There are many features that I would like to mimic from Stack Overflow. Particularly ...
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Electorate legend
The current text is: "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions"
I think it should read "Voted on 600 posts and 25% or more of total votes are on questions", which is ...
