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APerson

00:46

going to start working on a regular expressions page. any suggestions on how I could avoid making a pointless copy of the official Python docs?

MSeifert

put a link in the remarks to the official python documentation and then assume everyone has read that and then provide examples that go beyond or clarify issues you see with the python documentation

APerson

from my multiple readthroughs of the official docs, I don't think they get to working example code fast enough

MSeifert

but regex is hard to understand for beginners

APerson

so, I was thinking of starting off with practical (maybe even classic) examples like phone number matching

MSeifert

that's too basic I think

APerson

00:49

good to know

MSeifert

just do it. It's beta :)

APerson

well, I don't really see much of a "middle ground" in difficulty between phone numbers and, say, email addresses/URLs

thanks for the endorsement :D

oh, I have an idea - we could do an actual house address (of course, it would be very US-centric)

MSeifert

I'm not too familiar with the finer points of python-regex: Are there real differences between php/JS/Python regex?

or any other regex?

APerson

besides the lack of // syntax and raw strings and a few other things (which I'll mention)

I don't think so

(gtg, sorry)

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Anonymous

04:03

Sooo is there any way to undelete drafts you accidentally discarded??! >_<

Anonymous

Built-in Collection Types (topic draft)

edited on apr 8 '16 at 4:02 by Jeremy Banks 156

added 5 examples

Anonymous

oh... it oneboxed.

Anonymous

That suggests soft-deletion, at least.

Anonymous

I was almost ready to post it... I just meant to cancel a new section I'd created, but absent-mindedly trashed the whole thing.

Adam Starrh

05:12

That happened to me

I think I accidentally deleted somehow, then I used the back button to recover it.

Apparently, I did not do a good job of re-creating the topic, because it wouldn't allow me to post, and my work got swallowed up when I went back to my drafts page.

I had thought I'd copied everything before refreshing, but I re-created again and 'saved draft' but somehow I ended up with an older version. I think if I write anything else in the near future, it'll be in notepad :D

Anonymous

@JeremyBanks @AdamLear

nouney

07:05

for those who know go lang, do you find this example useful ? docs-beta.stackexchange.com/documentation/proposed/changes/…

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MSeifert

15:05

anyone else noticed that there is no way to search a documentation without entering the documentation-tag?

I've just created a Question about it: docs-beta.stackexchange.com/questions/935/… - I would appreciate feedback. :)

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Anonymous

16:08

@JeremyBanks help plz! asap

Anonymous

16:19

I think it's too easy to accidentally delete drafts when you just intend to discard a new section, given that deletion is permanent. I burned myself pretty badly.

MSeifert

well there is a javascript alert when you discard?

@JeremyBanks But you are right, I would suggest multiple alerts: "Are you sure" -> Ok -> "Are you really sure" -> Ok -> "You delete the whole draft: Reconsider!?" -> "No"

Anonymous

@MSeifert I think there was a prompt, yes. My confusion was because I did want to discard some of it, just not all of it.

MSeifert

"Are you sure you want to delete this draft?" is the prompt

Maybe one could add another option besides "Ok" and "Cancel": "Delete one part of the draft" and then prompt them with "Then delete the example not the draft!"

Anonymous

16:39

We just need an undelete option. >_>

Anonymous

or for the staff to use their undelete option when we shoot ourselves in the foot....

Jon Ericson

@JeremyBanks docs-beta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask?tags=feature-request

Anonymous

Will do.

Jon Ericson

I will say it took me several minutes to wrap my head around the idea that my edit was for the entire topic and not just one section.

Anonymous

Q: Add an option to undelete drafts

I spent a while working on a new topic last night. When I was almost ready to post it, I accidentally created a new section. In the editing pane at the bottom (whose UI is prominently referring to the New Example at this point) I absent-mindedly hit the "discard" button and confirmed, intending t...

MSeifert

17:24

Q: Unexpected cutoff in the "Actions"-section

I don't know what happened but in the python Documentation there is currently only one visible action instead of 5. Probably some escaping mechanism or so going havok?

bug dashboard

Anyone notice what the cause of this is?

@JAtkin I've included your image in the main post (docs-beta.stackexchange.com/questions/935/…) if you wanted to answer the question feel free to do a rollback :)

J Atkin

I won't bother. KurtisBeavers will probably do it better anyway ;)

MSeifert

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Anonymous

19:39

@JonEricson Is there an UI easy option for staff to click-and-undelete things yet, or is that not implemented?

Jon Ericson

@JeremyBanks Not that I know of. I'm still playing a regular user for the moment. ;-)

Anonymous

Roger that.

J Atkin

21:05

How do I change a question to community wiki? I want to change this to CW so others can edit it as well.

Anonymous

Users can't mark questions at community wiki any more, only moderators.

Anonymous

and I can't remember ever seeing it done.

J Atkin

Really?

Anonymous

The Future of Community Wiki

Grace Note on August 19, 2011

When you mark a post community wiki on a Stack Exchange site, that means …

Anonymous

> questions rarely, if ever, need community wiki. [...] We removed the ability for users to make a question community wiki

J Atkin

21:13

Hmm, I know that I used to be able to make my question a CW on SO.

Anonymous

It used to be possible, half of the site's lifetime ago. ;)

J Atkin

;) Yeah, but I thought I saw that checkbox recently...

J Atkin

21:32

Would a mod here mind changing this to a CW? docs-beta.stackexchange.com/questions/423/proposed-name-change

Anonymous

22:27

Do we know if any documentation privs will be tied to gold tag badges?

Anonymous

(Deciding whether it's worth trying to grind out the last bit I need for gold JavaScript before launch.)

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