How to prevent "enter" from sending text to Copilot chat and instead create a new line?

[SamEdwardes]

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When using Copilot chat, I often want to sent multiple lines of text. For example:

Can you please explain to me what this code will do:

```python
name = 'sam'
print(name)
```

To create a new line, I need to use Shift+Enter. I would prefer if I could configure Enter to create a new line, and Shift+Enter to send the input.

[bonizario]

Here's a quick tutorial to achieve your desired behavior:

1. Press CTRL+SHIFT+P to open a VS Code panel that runs commands
2. Type: Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Search for: workbench.action.chat.acceptInput
4. Right-click this command and click Remove keybinding

If this helped you, consider marking my answer as the "Accepted answer" 😄

[SamEdwardes]

Thank you so much! I will give this a try.

[SamEdwardes]

Thank you so much! I changed the binding to SHIFT+ENTER, it is much easier to type multiline inputs now :)

[SamEdwardes]

As of 2024-05-05 I think the name of the command has changed. It is now workbench.action.chat.submit. Change this keybinding to shift + enter.

Default:

Change:

[aspain-goodrx]

it seems the recent updates to copilot reset this for me, so I had to go back and redo it, but this still works as outlined above - thank you!

[SamEdwardes]

Same thing happened for me.