Pressing shift enter should create a newline in the prompt, but instead just submits it
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 24, 2025 by tomye-oai Closed Nov 24, 2025
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codex-cli 0.64.0-alpha.5
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What issue are you seeing?
I would expect hitting shift enter to create a new line when writing a prompt, but it instead just submits the current prompt.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019ab6bf-7299-7ce2-b832-41955d5e26d6
What is the expected behavior?
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?. New lines are usually inserted viactrl+j. That's because of terminal limitations.Closing in favor of #4218