This userscript adds a button to edit pages on Stack Exchange sites that fixes most common grammatical and usage errors with a click and automatically composes an editing summary based on the changes made.
The rules included in the standard script are as follows:
- Uppercases lowercase "i"s in posts
- Corrects to proper spelling/capitalization of "Stack Overflow" and "Stack Exchange" in order to fit the legal naming requirements
- Expands "SO" and "SE" to "Stack Overflow" and "Stack Exchange," respectively
- Corrects to proper spelling/capitalization of...
- JavaScript
- JSFiddle
- jQuery
- HTML
- CSS
- JSON
- AJAX
- AngularJS
- PHP
- Upvote/Downvote
- Capitalizes the first letter of new lines
- Removes common greetings
- Removes "thanks" and similar phrases
- Removes "Edit:" and similar modifiers
- Replaces the now-banned mysite.domain with example.domain
The script can be easily expanded by adding rules to the edits dictionary with the format given below:
anArbitraryName: {
expr: /aRegularExpressionForMatching/,
replacement: "What to replace it with (may include captured text like $1)",
reason: "an unpunctuated reason starting with a lowercase letter that will be formatted automatically and inserted into the edit summary"
},
If you fix any of my rules or come up with new ones, feel free to make a pull request.
If you notice any odd behavior of the script, please report an issue (this may seem obvious, but odd behavior might not seem like a "bug" in the traditional sense).