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Flip submit and newline key bindings

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Look for keybinding configuration in the CLI's source code, likely in input handling or UI components. Check how current newline and submit actions are implemented. Test changes by running the CLI and verifying that keybindings can be swapped as described.

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Description

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Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

To often I submit unfinished multiline prompts

Proposed solution

Make it configurable. Allow users to define what the following keybindings do:
what the return shift+return or command+return or ctrl+return do

As there are other situations where there is a similar newline vs submit paradigm (JIRA, confluence, slack, etc.), it's important to have the opportunity to train muscle memory to one and not have to rethink every time on what is submit in this context.

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