Please remove or make the CTRL+arrow key shortcut optional in the UI.
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 26, 2025 by martinambrus Closed Aug 12, 2025
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This shortcut is well-defined across devices and serves to move caret position to the beginning/end of a word. The Codex UI has this shortcut defined to switch between code version tabs, which frequently interferes with people writing into the text field for next request/question.
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In addition to this, the ESC key closes an opened task - this is also maybe a bit unlucky shortcut, as I do sometimes use ESC on the page and this just closes the task I'm currently in.
EDIT: I use the ESC key a lot when commenting lines of code in the difff shown and that closes both - the actual comment but also the actual task on which I am
Thanks for the feedback. I'll escalate this internally for the Codex remote agent product team.