Enter newline in prompt with shift+enter

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Aug 31, 2025 by frees11 Closed Sep 3, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What feature would you like to see?

Can we also support shift+enter when entering newline in prompt like competition has? Ctrl+j is kinda wtf

Are you interested in implementing this feature?

_No response_

Additional information

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7 Comments

MarkusJLechner · 10 months ago

Instead of hardcoded shortcuts, it would be nice to be able to configure in the config

pidgeon777 · 10 months ago

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3049

pidgeon777 · 10 months ago

### What feature would you like to see? Can we also support shift+enter when entering newline in prompt like competition has? Ctrl+j is kinda wtf ### Are you interested in implementing this feature? _No response_ ### Additional information _No response_

Or even better, Enter for adding newline, Ctrl+Enter for sending the input.

Hotkeys should be configurable.

MaurUppi · 10 months ago

Had you tried Shift + Enter? It works on codex-cli 0.27.0, and even the status line is shown
⏎ send Ctrl+J newline Ctrl+T transcript Ctrl+C quit

0.29.0
⏎ send Shift+⏎ newline Ctrl+T transcript Ctrl+C quit

frees11 · 10 months ago

Thats great thank you, I wasn't aware, that I can use shift+enter now, I am
happy now, one minor thing would be to have correct label in gui, but
anyway great job.

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gpeal contributor · 10 months ago

Shift + enter is now supported. If it doesn't work, it's because your terminal doesn't support enhanced keyboard reporting. Most modern terminals (iTerm, ghostty, etc. do)

iyosifov · 5 months ago

@gpeal What protocol or exact mode constitutes "enhanced keyboard reporting" precisely? I tried shift + enter in Gnome Terminal and it didn't work. I'd love to file a bug report against them but I'll need more details for that.