Stack Exchange Comment Templates Context Menu

If you are tired of typing the same comments into Stack Exchange sites over and over, you can use this add-on to insert any of your frequently written comments with a couple clicks.

Getting started

Trigger a context menu on the field where you write a comment by right-clicking, long-pressing, or command-clicking (depending on your operating system.) A menu will pop up with a list of comments that can be inserted. Click one of them to insert it, or use the "Edit" button to change the comment templates.

Features

• Right click on an empty comment field, or on the "Add a comment" link to bring up a context menu of comments that can be inserted.
• Also works for edit notes, flags, and flag handling responses.
• Does not show a context menu for comment boxes that have been filled in allowing you to use the standard context menu for features like spell check.
• An import/export text file format
• Load comments from a URL (Hosting comment templates on Github works great.)
• Comment templates are stored in user script storage that persists across all Stack Exchange sites (no need to configure your comments per site.)
• Set comment templates to be available only in specific contexts:
  • Only on specific types of comments (eg. comments on answers)
  • Only for moderators or for non-moderators
  • Only on specific sites (eg. stackoverflow.com)
  • Only for specific tags (eg. Java)
• Filter comments by keyword
• Warnings about comment templates that are too long

Variables

The following variables are expanded by this code within comments:

• $SITENAME: The name of the current Stack Exchange site, eg "Stack Overflow"
• $SITEURL: The domain name of the current Stack Exchange site, eg stackoverflow.com. You usually don't need this variable, you can use links like [editing help](/editing-help) to link to URLs found on every StackExchange site.
• $MYUSERID: Your user id
• $MYNAME: Your user name (without spaces for @references)
• $QUESTIONID: The ID of the question at the top of the page
• $OPID: The user ID of the person who asked the question
• $OPNAME: The user name of the person who asked the question (without spaces for @references)
• $OPREP: The reputation of the person who asked the question
• $POSTID: The ID of the question or answer for which a comment is being written
• $AUTHORID: The user ID of the author of the question or answer for which a comment is being written
• $AUTHORNAME: The user name of the author of the question or answer for which a comment is being written (without spaces for @references)
• $AUTHORREP: The reputation of the author of the question or answer for which a comment is being written

In addition, Stack Exchange expands links such as [meta], [edit], and [help]. See the documentation for the full list and explanations.

SE-AutoReviewComments compatibility

I authored this project because SE-AutoReviewComments isn't currently maintained and is no longer fully functional. I wanted migration from it to be as painless as possible.

• The import/export format is very similar. Comment templates exported from SE-AutoReviewComments can be directly imported
• All SE-AutoReviewComments variables are supported

There are several features of SE-AutoReviewComments that are not implemented here:

• Displaying extended information about the author
• "See-through" mode
• JSONP export
• Showing the full comment text by default
• Adding a welcome message to comments for new users
• Direct extensions for Firefox or Chrome

Github

If you want to suggest changes or report bugs please do so in the Github repository for this project.