Scroll issue PageUp/PageDown don't scroll the conversation, only the input text
Documentation Type
Other
Documentation Location
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Section/Topic
Scroll section
Current Documentation
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What's Wrong or Missing?
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Title: PageUp/PageDown don't scroll the conversation, only the input text
Body:
While typing a message, PageUp/PageDown move the cursor inside the text I'm composing instead of scrolling up to see
earlier messages in the conversation. I have to press Ctrl+O first to open the Transcript view, and only there do
PageUp/PageDown actually scroll.
Option 2 (using the terminal's native scrollback) is risky on Windows in a plain conhost/PowerShell window: the
scrollbar's up-arrow button sits directly beneath the window's close (X) button, so a slightly imprecise click closes
the entire session instead of scrolling. This causes accidental loss of the running session.
It would be simpler if PageUp/PageDown scrolled the conversation directly, without needing Ctrl+O first.
Workaround: custom keybindings.json binding to make PageUp/PageDown open the transcript and scroll it.
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Suggested Improvement
Make PageUp/PageDown scroll the conversation transcript directly when pressed in the chat input, instead of only
moving the cursor within the text being typed. If there's typed multi-line content, cursor movement could still take
priority, but once at the top/bottom of the input (or when the input is empty), PageUp/PageDown should fall through to
scrolling the transcript — without requiring Ctrl+O to open it first.
Impact
High - Prevents users from using a feature