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Yes, I have been "suggesting" a lot of one liners, typo, rephrasing, or just simple clean up of code with it. Make it a breeze, it's like playing tidy-up without having to branch out or bother much the author.

I feel stupid. How do I do this?

When writing an inline comment, there’s a button to make a suggestion. It inserts a markdown code fence with the existing code on the line(s), which you can edit. When you submit the comment, it shows up with diff highlighting and can be applied by the author with one click.

Essentially the same thing exists in both GitHub and GitLab

ah yes! duh. and thanks. I need better glasses...

It’s not integrated well into the UI and thus a big hassle to use. Much easier to just checkout the branch and create a commit (or just write a comment…)

A lot of folks didn't know it was there. It's just 1 of many icons, and tbh, I'm not sure when the feature got added.