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Re: Saved Replies

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Post by chris_wot »

minimaxir wrote: post #14
glittershark wrote: post #2

They really have been on a roll with the new features since the Dear Github letter happened

Keep in mind that these kinds of features were likely in development prior to the letter, although it's likely the letter accelerated the time table a bit.

If it got GitHub to roll things out faster, then good job to the letter writers and good job to GitHub!

FWIW, I sent an email to Jono Bacon soon after that letter hit HN, and he was very polite and actually listened to my ramblings. I couldn't be more impressed.

I'll be keeping my GitHub subscription :-)

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Post by steveklabnik »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #19
steveklabnik wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I don't have a Mac, and even so, I look at GitHub from a lot of places, including my phone.

GitHub hasn't implemented this feature (or any of the rich text editing ones) on the mobile version of their site. You'll have to force the desktop version and somewhat tediously navigate the menus to use this, though I suppose it's still an improvement over typing long messages.

Ah, that doesn't surprise me. I can mostly get away without using the desktop version these days, mostly thanks to https://github.com/blog/1642-merge-pull-requests-from-your-p... (note that image mockup...)

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Post by steveklabnik »

dangoor wrote: post #18
steveklabnik wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I don't have a Mac, and even so, I look at GitHub from a lot of places, including my phone.

That's certainly reasonable. There are likely similar utilities for other platforms[1]. For people with Macs and iOS devices, TextExpander snippets can be synced across devices so that they're available everywhere. Saved Replies on GitHub is still a great feature, and I don't mean to imply otherwise. I'm just noting a more general solution to this problem. [1]: http://alternativeto.net/software/textexpander/

Truth, and I do think that's useful to point out :) I use Linux and iOS, so I tend to be in a weird place for anything sync-ing, most people seem to assume Linux/Android or Mac OS/iOS.

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Post by [deleted] »

dangoor wrote: post #18
steveklabnik wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but I don't have a Mac, and even so, I look at GitHub from a lot of places, including my phone.

That's certainly reasonable. There are likely similar utilities for other platforms[1]. For people with Macs and iOS devices, TextExpander snippets can be synced across devices so that they're available everywhere. Saved Replies on GitHub is still a great feature, and I don't mean to imply otherwise. I'm just noting a more general solution to this problem. [1]: http://alternativeto.net/software/textexpander/

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Post by TheRealPomax »

Couto wrote: post #20

Not saying that they've copied or anything, but this has been around for a while: https://github.com/notwaldorf/github-canned-responses

Open Source, eh? canned-responses is MIT licensed, so even if Github just took the time to integrate that code wholesale: hurray, progress for all!

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Post by jwcrux »

This is awesome. I have a repo with only about 1k stars, so nowhere near the adoption of something like npm, etc.

Even on my repo, I still regularly receive issues that say "it doesn't work. Why?" With no reproducable info. These will cut the time on asking for that info and give more time back to other users or the project itself.

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

gboone42 wrote: post #7

Neat feature, should save a bunch of time. I wonder if they'll consider support for variables like {{ submitter }} or {{ owner }} that would fill in a mention to the user who filed the issue or the repo's owner.

My new username: andrewstuart'); DROP TABLE repositories;--

:-P

(https://xkcd.com/327/)

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