Feature Request: Improve keyboard shortcuts in the web interface

[allo-]

Prerequisites

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Feature Description

The web interface could use some more shortcuts many other chat interfaces have. It already has a send shortcut when sending a new message, but lacks for example a shortcut to store a message after editing, which could be something like ctrl-enter. Dialogs like "Really delete this chat" also seem to have no keyboard shortcuts to confirm or cancel. Here one could add "enter" as shortcut for the default button and "esc" for the secondary button.

Motivation

It would be good to have a consistent way to write and edit messages without using the mouse too much or needing to navigate with tab to the correct button. In the best case, the use of enter/shift-enter/ctrl-enter would be consistent between writing a message and editing a message, e.g. always using ctrl-enter to send or always using enter to send and shift-enter to insert a linebreak.

Possible Implementation

Use similar scripts as when adding a new message.

Other

The github-actions bot auto-closed #15310 and doesn't open it again after commenting in the issue, but the feature is not yet implemented and not discussed if there are reasons against implementing. it.

[allo-]

I am a bit confused right now. I have two different computers with own builds of llama.cpp and one seems to have a webinterface with more features like improved keyboard bindings?

I tried downgrading my PC that does have the interface without to d12a983 to have a matching version, but still get the other version. I looked if I find a CMake flag and deleted the build folder (keeping the CMakeCache though) and still get different UIs.

This one has keybindings and I can edit AI messages:

This one does not have the keybindings and cannot edit AI messages:

Why am I getting seeing interfaces?

[allozaur]

I am a bit confused right now. I have two different computers with own builds of llama.cpp and one seems to have a webinterface with more features like improved keyboard bindings?

I tried downgrading my PC that does have the interface without to d12a983 to have a matching version, but still get the other version. I looked if I find a CMake flag and deleted the build folder (keeping the CMakeCache though) and still get different UIs.

This one has keybindings and I can edit AI messages:

This one does not have the keybindings and cannot edit AI messages:

Why am I getting seeing interfaces?

Hey! The second screenshot is the legacy WebUI, i think the easiest would be if you completely uninstalled and re-installed llama.cpp on your machine. I'm not sure what method u used to install, but:

• If you installed with brew or winget i'd suggest running uninstall and install again
• If you used the repository code and built the llama-server using cmake, maybe there was some git conflict that solved with older version index.html.gz static build which is used for the server binary. In that case I would suggest cloning fresh master and then re-running build

[allo-]

I had it compiled from git and updated from time to time.
I'm not sure what it was as git status didn't show anything, but after a fresh checkout, fresh build directory and removing ccache I now have the new web interface.

I think the new interface already resolves these issues and has a lot better keyboard shortcuts. Thanks for the help.

[allozaur]

Glad i could help :)