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To this day I always copy comments to the clipboard before submitting them or after I feel like I've put a lot of work into them -- owing to dubious browser UI[

by SilasX 4y ago

To this day I always copy comments to the clipboard before submitting them or after I feel like I've put a lot of work into them -- owing to dubious browser UI[2] c. 2000, where e.g. you might accidentally lose focus of the text field, and then the backspace button would navigate backwards[1] and lose everything you had typed up. So my muscle memory is a lot of ctrl-a, c. [1] A mistake that Chrome adopted afterward and didn't reverse until 2016: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/05/19/2041232/google-chrome-to-disallow-backspace-as-a-back-button https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/05/19/2041232/google-chro... [2] Wasn't the only cause, of course. The request could fail as well.

touisteur 4y ago
This is my Jira trauma resurfacing thanks. I'm quite heavy on technical explanations, like to put a lot of context, links, references, alternatives, notes in my tickets. Now I just write with outlook (less formatting options than word, actually saves my 35-pages-long shit while typing and people can read it without logging into some slow monster, and I can insert images really fast inline) and save to add an attachment to Jira.
eviks 4y ago
Still possible to lose data in the modern dubious UI on the web, so you could an extension like GhostText and type comment in a regular text editor where you. get recovery for free even if both apps crash
- ornornor 4y ago
  > GhostText How did I not know about this?? And it supports Firefox + (neo)vim!