Refined-github: Add automated comment draft save

[krasi-georgiev]

would you consider adding the auto save for comments?

For example:

1. start writing a comment
2. close the tab or the browser.
3. Open the same issue and the comment draft is there.

[sindresorhus]

At least in Chrome, if you reopen the tab, the form contents is still there.

[krasi-georgiev]

The only way to restore the content is by using the history (CTRL+H) to open a previously closed tab.
In any other case the text area content is lost when you open a new tab and navigate to same issue/pr

[busches]

@krasi-georgiev Ctrl + Shift + T reopens the tab and restores the value as well.

What's the use case where you start typing a comment, leave the page on purpose and want to resume the comment later?

[krasi-georgiev]

multitasking :smile:

Start writing an answer than get stuck to something I want to explain and leave it to come back to it later.
If I forget about it and close the browser or the tab I loose it.

Ctrl + Shift + T is nice but doesn't solve my problem as most of the time it will not be the last closed tab in the history list.

[fregante]

Related, possibly better solution than filling up the storage with forgotten half-comments: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/1037

[krasi-georgiev]

yeah not bad solution , but what about Chrome crashes or force restarts?

[krasi-georgiev]

any other ideas?

[fregante]

This is not a terrible idea, but the comments cache needs to be limited (to 10 comments or so)

Edit: now we have proper cache with expiration, so no need to limit it by count.

[krasi-georgiev]

yeah 10 is plenty.

[axetroy]

How about Add automated issue's title and content draft save?

Sometimes, I wrote a long-term issue, just ready to submit

If you accidentally click the close tab, the content will be lost.

Even if I reply to the tag with CTRL+T, the content will not be restored.

This is frustrating.

[fregante]

Idea:

1. Every 10 seconds, save all the visible comment areas' contents into an array, eg. cache.set(`comment-backup:${location.pathname}`, ['comment 1', 'comment 2'], 1 / 2)
2. When any page loads, check the cache, display a closable fixed element in a corner, that opens a dropdown that lets you copy each item

This lets us easily save multiple comment fields (e.g. reviews) without having to mess with their UI (e.g. reopening a new review comment for the same exact line; possibly overwriting GitHub's more recent version, etc)

UI could be better, better yet if "forget all" is replaced by an X outside

Code mostly copied from https://primer.style/css/components/dropdown#alignment

[fregante]

This can be a global extension as it's not limited to GitHub. If you write such an extension or know one, please leave a comment