Support multiple-line prompts

[jiamingz42]

Sometimes I need to write multi-line prompt. My current workaround is to write the prompt in a text editor and copy them into aider.

The ideal solution is that when I hit ctrl+enter or cmd+enter, I can continue the edit the prompt.

[paul-gauthier]

Aider supports this using {} characters. See the tips section, which says:

Enter a multiline chat message by entering { alone on the first line. End the multiline message with } alone on the last line.

[paul-gauthier]

Also, in many terminal environments if you paste text with multiple lines into aider they will be received as a multi-line input. But this may not work in all terminal environments.

[tmm1]

I also tried to use ctrl+enter. If that could be supported it would be nice.

[paul-gauthier]

Good idea. I asked aider to make that change though I had to manually switch the keybinding from ControlJ to the correct ControlM.

[paul-gauthier]

Actually, apparently prompt toolkit has no way to express "control+enter". So I switched it to esc-enter instead.

[jiamingz42]

So I switched it to esc-enter instead.

Thanks for making the change! I upgrade to 0.9.0 but esc-enter doesn't work for me.

I think { and { will work for most case except if I need to paste some code snippet which should contains { at a single line. I can probably workaround it by put a leading space.

[joshuavial]

It wasn't working for me either, then I realised it isn't in the 0.9.0 build and only in main
pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git#egg=aider-chat will get you the version from the main branch

just remember to switch back to the last stable version if there are any issues
pip install --upgrade aider-chat==0.9.0

[kripper]

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