[FEATURE]: Allow to Shift + enter to edit in next line without enter

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Problem: When composing multi-line messages in Opencode, pressing Enter sends the message immediately, making it difficult to write formatted code blocks or multi-line responses without using workarounds.

Requested Feature: Add support for Shift+Enter to insert a new line while keeping Enter as the send command.

Use Cases:

Writing multi-line code examples
Formatting markdown with line breaks
Composing structured explanations with paragraphs
Pasting code snippets with proper formatting

Expected Behavior:

Enter → Send message (current behavior)
Shift+Enter → Insert new line (new behavior)

This pattern is common in CLI tools and chat interfaces (e.g., ChatGPT, Discord, Slack) and would improve the user experience for composing complex multi-line content.

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

Keyboard shortcuts to edit prompts suck so much! #4938: Keyboard shortcuts to edit prompts suck so much! - Specifically mentions shift+enter not working for new lines
shift+enter keybinding not working #1505: shift+enter keybinding not working - Documents that shift+enter doesn't insert newlines as expected
Line breaks do not work any more in the latest version #4189: Line breaks do not work any more in the latest version - Reports shift+enter sending message instead of creating line breaks
Keybinds #4997: Keybinds - Pinned issue documenting multiline input (shift+enter, ctrl+enter) as a known keybind issue

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

For keybind-related issues, please also check our pinned keybinds documentation: #4997

need to know your terminal, this should already work unless:

your terminal doesnt support it
your terminal needs to have configured modifiers so the tui can actually intepret it as a shift enter instead of enter

FWIW I upgraded ubuntu to 25.1 and seemingly this keybind broke completely in ghostty. After some digging it needed this added into ghostty config:

keybind = shift+enter=text:\x1b\r

Reload of terminal and opencode and it all worked again. This has been reported a few times on claudecode also with the same changes needed.

I tried this on multiple different terminals on windows but doesn't work at all. I thought I was going crazy because I thought it was strange that opencode missed a simple and important feature like this but I guess it's just broken or the terminals fault.

@diddletime

@diddletime did u see this?

https://opencode.ai/docs/keybinds/#windows-terminal

@diddletime did u see this?

https://opencode.ai/docs/keybinds/#windows-terminal

this works for me with windows-terminal -> WSL2 -> tmux -> fish

The Shift+Enter for multiline doesn't work for me. I've got the same issue just like OP. My setup:

macOS: 26.2 (Build 25C56)
OpenCode: 1.1.31
Warp: 0.2026.01.14.08.15.04

The Shift+Enter for multiline doesn't work for me. I've got the same issue just like OP. My setup:
* **macOS**: 26.2 (Build 25C56)

* **OpenCode**: 1.1.31

* **Warp**: 0.2026.01.14.08.15.04

same here. I don’t see any issue in implementing it, or even adding an option for users to test it.

Same issue on OnMacOS. I have to use CTRL+J.

Same issue on OnMacOS. I have to use CTRL+J.

I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks.

Same issue on OnMacOS. I have to use CTRL+J.

Thank you for this! In case anyone's like me and remaps caps lock to ctrl - new line is working for me in Ghostty/Tmux on MacOS with:

ctrl (physical caps lock) + shift + j

I have the same issue on :

Archlinux
Alacritty: v0.16.1 (42f49eeb)
Tmux: 3.6a

@diddletime did u see this?

https://opencode.ai/docs/keybinds/#windows-terminal

I think the current solution described in the documentation has some side effects on Windows Terminal. Configuring Shift+Enter this way is effectively a "dirty workaround", as it overrides the terminal's existing key behavior. For terminals like PowerShell, Shift+Enter already works as a way to input multi-line commands.

After applying the suggested configuration, however, Shift+Enter no longer behaves correctly and may insert literal characters such as [13;2u12 instead.

It would be helpful if the documentation could mention this limitation, so users understand that this configuration may affect the default multi-line input behavior of some terminals.

This so much. Find this very annoying switching from Cursor to OpenCode (which has the option for Enter to submit or Enter for newline)

In OpenCode v2, Shift+Enter inserts a new line by default. input.newline defaults to shift+return, ctrl+return, alt+return and ctrl+j.

Added in #41882; alt+return came in #43655.

Some terminals don't send a separate Shift+Enter key sequence. For those, see https://opencode.ai/docs/keybinds/ and the keybind tracking issue #4997.

Closing as completed.

This will be very useful; in most cases, I hit Enter to add a new line.

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