Chat tabs (alt+number to switch between them)
What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI
What feature would you like to see?
I'm sure this is a common problem people have, but the obvious solution just occurred to me. How often do you type something in Codex, waiting and ready to send it once the existing prompt is finished processing, but then the existing work results in something that requires a different follow up?
It'd be incredibly convenient if we could press a keybind like alt+1, alt+2 etc, to switch between different input fields, so we can leave what we already have written and send our follow up message, then go back to it. Note, I'm not talking about a whole new session, I'm just talking about the prompt input field.
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So you could have:
"Clean up the docs" in the alt+1 input tab, and then go to a fresh input tab using alt+2, write your response to whatever is in the active session, then go back to alt+1.
Obviously this is a rudimentary example. If all you were saying is just "clean up the docs" you wouldn't need this, but it's common I have multi-paragraph prompts typed up and ready to fire.
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It can also serve as a bit of a scratchpad for notes as well, which is another common usecase I have. Right now I tend to have multiple notepad.exe's open where I alternate between sessions back and forth. But this would eliminate that need for that, which would be amazing because juggling notepads is annoying.
There's already a way to do this. Type Ctrl+C to "stash" a partial prompt. Then you can type something else in its place. Then use the up arrow to restore the stashed prompt.
Thanks @etraut-openai - came back to ask you in particular if we could do this and had noticed you already replied to me about this and I had missed it :) Love your work mate.