# 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:** Product 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://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aizada_m/32/352050_2.png) [@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")

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Hi!  
Great feature 👏, 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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