[sippeangelo]

I think I have about a 50% success rate in typing a multiline message without accidentally sending it early, having to edit / copy and delete the message and finish typing it before the recipient has a chance to read it, confusing both me and them in the process.

[xnorswap]

A similar frustration / reason for getting it wrong sometimes: in slack, the behaviour of shift+enter entirely reverses if you're inside a multi-line code block. If you normally have enter to send and shift+enter to line break, then it'll do the opposite while inside a code block.

This is useful if you're trying to type verbatim inside a block, it's less so if you have a strong muscle-memory to shift+enter and do so while in the code block and find yourself sending half a message.

I also use a mixture of teams, discord and slack, and while slack does allow for customisations, I'd always rather get used to defaults to avoid having to configure on every machine I use.

There isn't quite a consistent well agreed default for the behaviour across applications, and that too is a source of frustration.

So I've taken to typing up any long messages in a PM to myself, and then copying that out to my intended target once I'm ready.

[arp242]

> in slack, the behaviour of shift+enter entirely reverses if you're inside a multi-line code block

There's a setting to turn that off so it behaves consistently. Or there was last time I used Slack.

[xnorswap]

Indeed, it was browsing settings which made me realise the root cause of why I was accidentally sending so many messages.

But changing settings on platforms which I need to use across different computers and accounts is also cause for frustration, so I try to adapt to the defaults, no matter how frustrating.

[pletnes]

Thanks!

[lelanthran]

> I think I have about a 50% success rate in typing a multiline message without accidentally sending it early, having to edit / copy and delete the message and finish typing it before the recipient has a chance to read it, confusing both me and them in the process.

That won't change if you had a different dedicated key for "move one line down but don't send `enter` keycode". You'd still accidentally hit `enter` due to muscle memory.

After all, if you could get past muscle memory, you'd simply press Shift while hitting Enter.

[pytness]

Same but with editing a message on a browser and trying to delete a word with Ctrl+w