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neagle
Bug: text in the "Game Comments" section can be lost forever
How to reproduce:
- Write some text in the "Game Comments" section
- Go to "next/previous" move
After that the text is lost forever, ctrl+z or going back to previous move doesn't bring the text back. It would be nice to have a handling similar to the "current move comment" where the text is more resilient.
This is a good idea and I'm not immediately sure how too fix this. Any ideas @neagle?
The "Comment" has a different behavior, which is to keep the current in progress comment when going back and forth in moves of a game. Using the same mechanism for "Game Comments" would do the trick, so you might want to look at how it's done in "Comment".
It's hard to make them the same mechanism, as they work a little differently—the game comment interacts with SGFs themselves, whereas comments are saved and managed via a totally separate API. That said, there's probably not a technical reason we can't manage to implement the same behavior for editing game comments.
It's just fallen a little low on my list of priorities the past six months as I've been focused on opening the National Go Center here in Washington, DC. :)
I lost another lengthy comment with a same issue editing a "current move comment"...
It's definitely a genuine issue, it's just that development time is in very short supply for me right now. (I'm co-directing next year's US Go Congress! 😓 ) Any PRs are welcome!