I reworked the pages around the Video Sequencer's Preview mode, addressing these and other issues.
Blender could in fact poll (check in regular intervals) for filesize and/or file modification…
It happens in the latest 4.2.0 too, and in any other Blender version I tested (going back all the way to 3.0). However, I think I found out why it worked for me before and now no longer did: I…
If the option indeed does nothing, it would be better to report that in the Blender project instead. We won't be able to help you much here…
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Rework the Bone -> Viewport Display page, mainly removing a note that no longer applies #104405
The "Cylinder" in the documentation refers to the Shape that you can select in the modifier options. The test file you attached uses the default "Sphere", but if you switch to "Cylinder", there is…
This overlay indeed does nothing. The documentation was updated to reflect this in the meantime.
It does work, but the effect is not immediately visible - you need to switch to a different tool and back.
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Clarify that the selection example pictures are about vertices, not faces/objects #104540
The pictures are correct - they show vertex selection, not face selection. (In face selection mode, you'd indeed get a different result)
I updated the image captions to point this out and…