editingexpanded

Editingexpanded is a concept in text editing and knowledge management describing a technique or feature that broadens a user's edits beyond a single selection to cover related material. It aims to improve consistency and efficiency by propagating changes to associated terms, references, or structural elements within a document or across a set of documents.

In practice, editingexpanded provides controls to specify the scope of expansion, such as local (the selected paragraph), section-wide, or document-wide, and can operate automatically or under user confirmation.

Mechanisms include rule-based propagation, where changes to a defined term are copied to all occurrences; template and macro awareness, where edits to a template propagate to all pages using it; and graph-based propagation, where edits follow an interlinked network of references.

Use cases include terminology management in technical writing, localization where term consistency matters, large wikis or content management systems, and code refactoring across a file.

Benefits and risks: editingexpanded can reduce repetitive edits, maintain consistency, and speed up editing workflows. It also carries risks of over-propagation, unintended changes, or conflicts in collaborative environments, requiring careful scope control and version management.

See also: batch editing, find and replace, refactoring, templating, content propagation.