Well, I’ve been using fast edits for a while, but I think this is the first time I encounter this.
I edited a word, and it worked. I edited another, it didn’t. I tried multiple times, waiting several seconds between each. I reloaded the page, and tried it again, with no success.
No error in the javascript console. No error in the network tab as far as I know. No error in Discourse’s logs.
A regular edit worked, though.
(I suggest you watch the video in fullscreen)
Sorry that I couldn’t have more info about that and I couldn’t repro either. I didn’t think about trying in safe mode either… But I guess it’s worth more than nothing to have a testimony that the fast edit didn’t work in at least a case if other people encounter the same issue in the future and can investigate further.
Yep I know about this and I also knew it would probably come from a French It’s related to quotes I think, I need to dig this, will keep this topic as a reminder
Yes I should fallback to composer in this case. I recently made a change to core which could make part of fast edit simpler, will try to dedicate some time for a round of improvement to this in next months.
I somehow made the typo “group’s” when I meant “groups” — the classic grocery-store sign “apostrophe to warn the reader that an ‘s’ is approaching”.
I selected the word and brought up the quick-edit box, removed the offending punctuation mark, hit save, and that seemed to work… but the post didn’t change.
Experimenting a bit: it’s not just “you cant remove the apostrophe”. Select one of the apostrophe’d words[1] and try to add words, replace it with something different (including removing the punctuation mark) — anythings. It doesn’t seem to save.
(For what it’s worth, I’m using Firefox on Fedora Linux.)
Also seems true if you select whole phrases that happen to be mark’d with the dread punctuation. For example, the previous sentence — but you can edit this one just fine.
I woke up to this today because when I’m writing I don’t see the difference between ”you doesn’t” and ”you don’t”. So I fix those when I see such errors
Like here and now you doesn’t correct me when I do such typos.
But I would fix, if quick edit would work. And it doesn’t.
Do we have some other similar bug going on now or do I remember wrong?
If it’s regressed I’ll re-open and move these over.
Update: I’ve just tested it on your post, and it pulled up the fast edit box and allowed me to enter an edit, but on saving closed the modal and did not make any changes.
I know about this and I also knew it would probably come from a French 
It’s related to quotes I think, I need to dig this, will keep this topic as a reminder 
