Earlier prompts, drafts and the stash

What you type isn’t lost. Each tab brings back its earlier prompts, keeps your unsent message when you quit, and lets you put a message aside to use later, in this tab or any other.

Bring back an earlier prompt

Press Up on the message box’s first line to bring back the tab’s previous prompt, as a terminal’s history does. Press it again for the one before. Down on the last line comes forward again, back to what you were typing.

  • Typing ends the recall, so the next Up starts from the newest again.
  • The same prompt twice in a row is kept once, and a tab keeps its last 200.
  • A restored tab has the prompts of its transcript too.
  • With the / or @ list open, the arrows move in the list instead (Slash commands and mentions).

Drafts

Each tab’s unsent message is written to disk a second after you last changed it, and again when the tab closes. It holds your text, any quick suffixes you added for this one message, and attached images and large pastes (Attachments and large pastes). When Claudette starts again, a restored tab has its draft back in the box.

  • Sending empties the draft. Closing a tab, rather than quitting, deletes it.
  • A tab that isn’t restored at launch loses its draft. That’s the case for unpinned tabs when Settings → General → Also restore unpinned tabs when Claudette starts is off (Closing and restoring).

The stash

The stash holds whole messages you’ve put aside. It’s for a message that belongs somewhere else, or later. Every tab shares it.

Put a message aside

Press Ctrl/Cmd+S, or choose Stash the message in the command palette, which lists it while there’s something typed. The whole draft, with its suffixes, images and pastes, leaves the box and goes to the stash.

Take one back

While the stash holds anything, the bar has Stashed (2) ▾ after Suffixes ▾. Its menu lists the messages, newest first. Each shows its first line (or what’s attached, such as 2 images), the folder it was written in and how long ago, such as api · 5 min ago. Hover one to see all of its text.

  1. Open Stashed ▾.
  2. Pick a message. It leaves the stash and goes into this tab’s box, ahead of anything you’ve typed.

The × beside a message deletes it from the stash.

The stash is saved on disk, so it outlives quitting. It belongs to this computer and isn’t synced to your other machines.

Settings

Nothing here has a switch. The shortcut can be changed in Settings → Keyboard → Stash the message, which defaults to Ctrl/Cmd+S.

Shortcuts

  Windows and Linux macOS
Earlier prompt, later prompt Up, Down Up, Down
Stash the message Ctrl+S Cmd+S

See also

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