tell me how in the chat when pressing enter there was a new line and not sending a request

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tell me how in the chat when pressing enter there was a new line and not sending a request

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Hey, to move to a new line, try the shortcut Shift + Enter.

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The justification given for this is usually that “This is chat app behavior” … but no, that is a lie. IRC and AIM and all the others had a SEND key that sent the message in addition to Enter. Facebook started using the enter key to send … probably because they wanted people to send more messages, or keep the messages short.

It’s totally inappropriate and bad form in a code editor where you are using the enter key every time you type a new line of code, then you go over to the assistant, and you have to stop and question if you are about to press the wrong key. Forget writing a bullet list!

It’s sort of ironic that the editor I’m typing this message in rn seems to understand the right behavior.

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