Add shortcut to jump to top of recalled multi-line composer history

Open 💬 1 comment Opened May 8, 2026 by Falven

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

Please add a keyboard shortcut in the Codex CLI composer to jump directly to the top of the currently recalled multi-line history entry.

Current behavior, as far as I can tell:

  • Up Arrow / Ctrl+P moves up through the recalled message line by line, or through prompt history depending on cursor position.
  • Home / Ctrl+A jumps to the start of the current line, not the top of the full multi-line recalled message.
  • Ctrl+R reverse-searches prompt history.
  • Ctrl+T opens the transcript overlay; inside that overlay, Home and End jump to the top/bottom.

The missing workflow is: recall a long prior multi-line prompt in the composer, then jump to the first line of that recalled prompt with a single shortcut. This would make editing and resubmitting long prompts much easier.

A possible behavior would be one of:

  • Add a dedicated composer binding for “jump to start of recalled multi-line input”.
  • Make Home / Ctrl+A jump to the start of the full composer buffer when the recalled input spans multiple lines, if that fits the existing keymap model.
  • Add PageUp/PageDown-style composer navigation for larger vertical jumps within multi-line input.

Additional information

This came up while trying to edit a long previous prompt recalled with Up Arrow. The transcript overlay has top/bottom navigation, but that does not solve editing the recalled composer text itself.

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