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Re: Saved Replies

#11

Post by steveklabnik »

_mikz wrote: post #5
steveklabnik wrote: post #4

Now _this_ is the kind of feature that really, really, really helps me. This will make my life immediately, measurably better.

Really? Why not just a notepad? It is on per user basis. So you can't even have different reply per repo. Or have some variable like user name or repo name. I mean. This really is the same as having a text file opened and copy paste something.

  > This really is the same as having a text file opened and copy paste something.
Convenience is a feature. Two clicks is far better than "have another application open, switch over to it, find the right part in the notepad, select that bit of text, copy and paste it over."

I do a _lot_ of issue triage. The time savings is not negligible for me.

(I do agree that per-repo would be nice, but I'm happy to have this in the meantime)

Re: Saved Replies

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Post by steveklabnik »

dangoor wrote: post #10
steveklabnik wrote: post #4

Now _this_ is the kind of feature that really, really, really helps me. This will make my life immediately, measurably better.

On the Mac, a utility like TextExpander is great because it lets you expand abbreviations out and fill in variables along the way.

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

Re: Saved Replies

#13

Post by steveklabnik »

maaaats wrote: post #9
steveklabnik wrote: post #4

Now _this_ is the kind of feature that really, really, really helps me. This will make my life immediately, measurably better.

I always write bookmarklets for stuff like this. You could even make it auto-fill reporters name or similar (as I see you wished in another comment)

Yeah, I have used a Chrome extension in the past. Nice to not have to do so, though, as it now works everywhere. I don't even use Chrome anymore.

Re: Saved Replies

#14

Post by minimaxir »

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.

Re: Saved Replies

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Post by mchahn »

What a coincidence. The discussion board for the github Atom editor just started offering canned replies today also. It is not their software, it is the new discuss software by coding-horror that is getting popular.

Re: Saved Replies

#16

Post by andrewstuart2 »

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.

And probably informed internal prioritization a bit, perhaps bubbling to the top a few simpler yet more-desirable features.

Re: Saved Replies

#17

Post by ronjouch »

dangoor wrote: post #10
steveklabnik wrote: post #4

Now _this_ is the kind of feature that really, really, really helps me. This will make my life immediately, measurably better.

On the Mac, a utility like TextExpander is great because it lets you expand abbreviations out and fill in variables along the way.

Also,

- On Windows there's https://autohotkey.com/

- On Linux there's (unmaintained but still working) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoKey , EDIT seems this fork is maintained: https://github.com/guoci/autokey-py3 , and it's on AUR as autokey-py3

(that doesn't remove anything to the utility of the GitHub feature, just mentioning these apps in case anyone is interested)

Re: Saved Replies

#18

Post by dangoor »

steveklabnik wrote: post #12
dangoor wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the Mac, a utility like TextExpander is great because it lets you expand abbreviations out and fill in variables along the way.

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/

Re: Saved Replies

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

steveklabnik wrote: post #12
dangoor wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the Mac, a utility like TextExpander is great because it lets you expand abbreviations out and fill in variables along the way.

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.
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