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feat(web): Insert newline on Alt+Enter in chat box#912

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Summary

  • Alt+Enter (Option+Enter on Mac) now inserts a newline in the chat input instead of submitting
  • Shift+Enter behavior is unchanged

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  • Type in the chat box and press Alt+Enter — a newline should be inserted
  • Press Enter alone — message should still submit
  • Press Shift+Enter — newline should still be inserted

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  • New Features
    • Alt+Enter (Option+Enter on Mac) now inserts a newline in the chat input instead of submitting.

brendan-kellam and others added 2 commits February 19, 2026 15:40
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feat(web): Insert newline on Alt+Enter in chat box
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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These changes add support for Alt+Enter (Option+Enter on Mac) keyboard shortcut to insert a newline in the chat input box instead of submitting the message, along with corresponding changelog documentation.

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Keyboard Shortcut Implementation
packages/web/src/features/chat/components/chatBox/chatBox.tsx		 Added altKey condition in the onKeyDown Enter handler: when Alt+Enter is pressed and suggestionMode is "none", the default action is prevented and editor.insertBreak() is called to insert a newline, creating a distinct path from the standard Enter submission behavior.
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CHANGELOG.md		 Added entry under Unreleased > Changed documenting the new Alt+Enter (Option+Enter on Mac) newline insertion behavior in chat input.

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@brendan-kellam brendan-kellam merged commit d476e3f into main Feb 19, 2026
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