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[FEATURE]: Quote selected transcript text into the prompt #21025
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Summary
I often want to respond to a specific piece of the assistant's output. Currently there's
no quick way to grab text from the transcript and drop it into the prompt as a quote.
The idea: select some text in the terminal, hit a hotkey, and it gets inserted at your
cursor as a blockquote. So if you select:
original
few
lines
You get this in your prompt buffer:
> original
> few
> lines
Ready to type your follow-up right below.
Motivation
Copy-pasting works, but you lose the quoting context. You end up manually typing >
prefixes or just pasting raw text and hoping the model understands what you're referring to.
This is a small ergonomic win that makes "replying" to specific output feel natural.
Suggested defaults
- Keybind:
Ctrl+Q(configurable viakeybinds.input_quote_selection) - Inserts at current cursor position
- Normalizes CRLF
- Clears the terminal selection after insertion
Verification
- I have searched for existing issues and this feature has not been requested before
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github-actions commentedon Apr 4, 2026
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[FEATURE]:(e.g.[FEATURE]: Quote selected transcript text into the prompt)Please edit this issue to address the above within 2 hours, or it will be automatically closed.
For keybind-related issues, please also check our pinned keybinds documentation: #4997
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feat(tui): add Ctrl+Q hotkey to quote selected text into prompt
[-]Feature: quote selected transcript text into the prompt[/-][+][FEATURE]: Quote selected transcript text into the prompt[/+]github-actions commentedon Apr 4, 2026
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feat(tui): add Ctrl+Q hotkey to quote selected text into prompt
github-actions commentedon Jul 4, 2026
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