Losing comment reply by accidentally clicking on another comment

[icc97]

This is a usability bug.

When replying to a comment in the Edit Comments (wp-admin/edit-comments.php) page, double-clicking on another comment will open that comment for editing and wipe away the reply you were writing.

If you want to highlight a word to copy from the comment that you are replying to this can be done by double-clicking the word. So completely by accident your reply is wiped out. This occurred on wordpress.com so I'm guessing their using the latest 3.4.2 version.

[MikeHansenMe]

I am not sure I would consider this a bug but lets get some feedback from UX.

[chriscct7]

WordPress really should use some JS to detect a comment change and do a "are you sure you want to start quick editing a new comment? You will lose your changes to the comment you are currently editing" or something along those lines. This is a relatively minor ux issue though since you would not expect many people to double click on a different comment while editing one.

[pareshradadiya]

Proposed fix

[chriscct7]

Replying to pareshradadiya:

Can you l10n the string you've got in your patch?

[pareshradadiya]

l10n the string added

[chriscct7]

Thanks! I'll review it today

[chriscct7]

Fixes fatal error and corrects formatting

[chriscct7]

Fixed a fatal error (space in the script loader l10n changes).

This looks good. Tagging for 4.3

Thanks @icc97 for the report and @pareshradadiya for your work on this :+1:

[obenland]

In 32857:

Check that current changes can be lost before editing another comment.

When replying to or editing a comment, double-clicking another comment will
open it in quick edit and changes to the current comment are lost.

Props pareshradadiya, chriscct7.
Fixes #21845.

[SergeyBiryukov]

#11328 was marked as a duplicate.