User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Updates: November 1, 2011/@comment-3279487-20111101234335/@comment-429401-20111102235531

Yes'ill second a request for that one - that was one of the 'many' backward steps introduced by the new editor. Its a pain typing longer edit summaries than the actual edit when doing minor updates to loads of pages. To me edit summaries should be compulsory as they are useful when scanning a pages history month later or just for recent changes