Draft is no longer automatically saved after you click 'keep editing'

davidb · May 26, 2025, 2:05pm

This should now be fixed with this commit:

FIX: resolve discard draft keep editing (#32667)

committed 01:40PM - 26 May 25 UTC

Fixes a bug where clicking keep editing in the discard modal dialog would result… in the composer auto save being disabled. Because of this updates to drafts after this point can easily be lost. The issue was that the `cancelComposer` was not resolving the promise, and therefore not setting `skipAutoSave` to false in the final step. This change also includes another fix for an issue that was revealed where the discard draft dialog would continually open again after we close it. This would happen when editing a draft while viewing a different topic. It wasn't noticed before as the `keep editing` button would result in the code hanging at the `await this.cancelComposer(opts)` stage and not opening the composer again for the new topic reply.

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Draft is no longer automatically saved after you click 'keep editing'

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