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Comments on "Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly

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"Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly

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I recently suggested an edit to an answer.

Basically, I formatted some code, adding code fences around it:

suggest edit - editor shows newlines

But at the "Review suggested edit" page, the differences are not clearly displayed.

It shows all the answer text in a single "line":

pending edit - no newlines

Hence, it's not only unclear what changes were made, but it also doesn't show the correct Markdown source (ex: there's a blank line before the code fences, but it's all displayed as it was in the same line).


Another case: someone suggested an edit to my question, but I can't see what was changed.

I had to copy-paste the text to an external editor and perform the diff myself to see that a single character was changed (a typo was fixed). Just looking at the page, it was really hard to find the difference:

hard to find diff

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Moshi‭ wrote about 4 years ago

See also this post on Meta: Suggested edits don't show meaningful diff

luap42‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Different issue. This one is about the formatting in the diff, the other is about the diff.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@luap42 is this still and issue or did your other edit/diff changes fix this too?

luap42‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I didn’t fix it AFAIK.