User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-188432-20110908232732/@comment-3388044-20110909063409

Just so you know, the Publish button does respect the condition set in preferences. It will start to save, then realize there was no edit summary, and bounce you back to the edit window with a notice about not having left an edit summary. (Btw, I can only speak about source mode; I know nothing about visual mode.)

I guess what it comes down to is changing one’s habit. I’ve learned to fill in the edit summary before I press Preview, so that, if I’m satisfied, I can just go ahead and press Publish.

If I had my way, there’d also be a Publish button on the View changes popup. When you make a small change, seeing that the change is good through View changes is often sufficient. So, why not also have a Publish button in there?