Ability to use slash commands in the middle of a message

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I imagine this is low priority, but also imagine it should be easy to implement for the team.

Currently, I like to use the /“Reference open editors” to get everything in context. However, sometimes I’ll be in the middle of writing a prompt, and realize that some more files need to be in context, so I’ll open them. Now, I’d like to just /“Reference open editors”, to add them to the context for the prompt I’m writing.

Right now, though, this doesn’t work. Typing “/” does nothing. The “/” only triggers the commands menu when the prompt input space is empty. So, I have to cut my prompt message, to remove it, then execute the command, then paste my message again. Mildly inconvenient.

I’d like for the menu for the “/” command to be triggered even when the message box already has text.

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Thanks for the suggestion, definitely seems feasible to add, but you are right that it’d unfortunately be pretty low priority :frowning:

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I’m also finding a lot of friction by not having this feature, for the same exact use case as @luiz00martins.

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Also I want to add, just make this a keyboard shortcut. If I could hit ctrl-shift-R or something to add open editors to context it would make life so much easier.

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We are looking at changing this presently to be more unified with the existing methods of context! Expect some changes around this soon.

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I’ve seen some MCP’s use the / command in their tool description so that we can trigger the MCP with the slash command. It would be nice if a popup appears when I type / so it shows the enabled MCPs for me to choose one