# Why does fast edit often open the composer instead?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-fast-edit-often-open-the-composer-instead/277499
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** fast-edit
**Created:** [September 1, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-fast-edit-often-open-the-composer-instead/277499 "2023-09-01T13:03:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Aizada\_M](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aizada_M)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-fast-edit-often-open-the-composer-instead/277499/1 "2023-09-01T13:03:57Z")
Hi!
Great feature đź‘Ź, but for some reason, when I select a piece of text for editing on my site, the composer window always opens. Or does it only apply to recently created messages?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-fast-edit-often-open-the-composer-instead/277499/2 "2023-09-01T14:18:55Z")
It happens when there is content in the sentence that prevents fast edit from knowing exactly the area you’re trying to edit. I admit it is sometimes a bit obscure. It can be because there’s a special character in the sentence or stuff like this.
For example, trying to fast edit “this special” sentence when the content is fairly close to the quotes, I don’t know the details) will fail because of the fancy quotes.
It can also happens if there’s markdown formatting in the sentence.
edit:
Other conditions for fast edits to work are when the selection doesn’t:
- contains | (table)
- contains line breaks
- contains non-ascii chars
- appears more than once in the post
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-does-fast-edit-often-open-the-composer-instead/277499/6 "2023-10-01T15:05:47Z")
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