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Originally Posted by davidfor
But, lets wait and see if chaley had a reason
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Because I didn't see the point, and TBH I still don't see the point. Plugboards exist to permit people to put non-standard data into standard device-specific fields that readers use to categorize books. No reader that I know of uses comments for that purpose. Adding comments means a maintenance problem, feature requests e.g., to do html processing in the plugboard, and who-knows-what such as "Why stop with comments? Why not allow plugboards to change any metadata field?"
You can use search/replace to change comments or construct another custom field however you want, especially with template mode. If needed keep the "real" comments in a custom column and modify the built-in comments field. If the changes are per-device then you can use Reading List to help manage which S/R to run. You can use Cleaning Comments to remove HTML.
Bottom line: I am not convinced that it is worth my trouble. @davidfor: you are welcome to take this on, committing your existing change.