As for saving a few edits ... well, there are two kinds of
posts that need to be editted. Easy ones and nightmare ones.
Simply slapping code tags around a post is a piece of
cake, but those nightmare edits require a whole lot more.
Many times i will copy the original post to a gvim window
so i can apply many search-n-replace edits to it. You might
be surprised at the number of newbie posts that use a
plethora of
<br> tags. I think most of these
have been composed in some sort of WYSIWYG editor, because
entities such as < and > will be escaped.
But right now, the biggest chore i have undertaken as an
editor has been title changes. Sure it's easy to change one
title, but you have to propagate that down and change
every title. I have been meaning to write a tool to
handle this, but i fear the testing part. ;)
If you really want to help us
editors out ...
join
us! That way you can see what it is all about and write
some tools after a couple of days of editting. Even though
i
hate data entry chores, i haven't had the need to
write code instead hit me, it's really not a big deal. :)
jeffa
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