Proposal: Shift+enter for newline in chat

[negz]

I frequently want to use newlines before submitting a chat message to organize my ideas.

Currently crush uses ctrl+j to create newlines. I haven't encountered this before - I'm more accustomed to shift+enter. (A quick Google shows it seems to be an Emacs binding, and I'm a vim user 😬).

Do others like ctrl+j? Would it make sense to also support shift+enter? Or make it configurable?

[meowgorithm]

Hey there! shift+enter is available in all terminals that support the Kitty Keyboard Protocol (or Windows Console Host). Some common terminals supporting this are:

• Rio
• Kitty
• Ghostty
• Windows Terminal

Note that tmux doesn't support this, so if you're in tmux in Kitty, for example, you won't get shift+enter. Zellij supports this, however.

If you have any more questions, or if I'm wrong with some of these, please let me know! ctrl+j is basically a fallback for unsupporting terminals.

[negz]

Ah I see. I'm in tmux in Ghostty.

Is this a tmux limitation then?

[caarlos0]

yes, you can however add this to your tmux conf:

# Hack to make Shift-Enter work in tmux
bind-key -T root         S-Enter     send-keys Escape "[13;2u"