Edit Overflow

Edit Overflow is an application for helping with the mondane aspects of editing Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites posts.

For instance, quick (using the clipboard and keyboard shortcuts) correction of common spelling mistakes for things (programming languages, software products, company names, and hardware).

Edit Overflow's first incarnation is a .NET Windows desktop application, but it is planned to appear on various platforms (Windows, Linux, web, mobile).

Current version: Edit Overflow v. 0.62 (2012-05-07) for Windows (122 KB 7-Zip archive with an EXE file). It is an alfa version (relatively stable, but feature incomplete) and requires .NET 2.0 or later. (In ZIP format.) Documentation: none at the moment (input and output is in many cases the clipboard, for instance the commands with keyboard shortcuts F5 and F7).

Changes since the last version (0.61):

1. The link utility is now easier to use: a. Generating a link will now increase the counter by 1 and explicitly setting it is no longer necessary. b. The index number is now remembered across invocations of the link utility (for an entire session of Edit Overflow) and thus the need to set or change it is diminished. c. Looking up a term and generating the corresponding link can now be done in one step instead of two: menu item Action/"Insert in "Look up" field, lookup and open Markdown utility" (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F5). d. There are now menu commands and associated keyboard shortcuts to set focus in the primary input fields, "Link text" and "URL" (menu Edit/"Select Link Text field" and menu Edit/"Select URL field").
2. Added: utility to format text as keyboard keys (wrap text in <kbd></kbd>) - menu Action/"Insert in "Look up" field and format as &keyboard (HTML)"
3. Deleted: The feature to reveal the content of deleted questions introduced in the last version was removed because it no longer works at Stack Exchange.
4. Added: first version of a menu Help/About.
5. Added more words (now at 1693 input words and 741 output words).

To be implemented before a version 1.0 release:

1. Reworked user interface (the current is only experimental). For instance, break into several types of windows or a tabbed interface.
2. User defined wordlist
3. Import and export facilities for the wordlist
4. Partial matching, at least when something is typed into the look-up field
5. Support for all Stack Exchange sites
6. Remember settings across program restarts

Notes file

notes.txt, HTML version

Jump page

Go to jump page.

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