Public Object: Use Shift+Enter for multiline text in Gmail Chat

Use Shift+Enter for multiline text in Gmail Chat

My IM client at work is the Google Talk widget that's built-in to Gmail. It works okay, but it's annoying for typing code snippets into chats. Code snippets require multiple lines of text, but pressing Enter commits the message. How to send a multi-line message?

Well today I accidentally discovered that pressing Shift+Enter inserts a newline character in to the chat. This might work in other IM clients as well...

# posted by Jesse Wilson on Tuesday, August 21, 2007

You'll find this is a common thing in editing software. Shift-Enter allows multiple lines to be entered in a single cell in Google Spreadhseets without commiting your work. Shift-Enter allows you to start a new paragraph under the same list bullet in MS Word, and does NOT create the next bullet automatically. Ditto in Powerpoint, etc. etc....

# posted by James on August 21, 2007 1:03 PM