Unclear The finding does not say what key combination triggers this action.
What
- Two new key chords,
ctrl+x ctrl+sandctrl+enter, are added to the chat keymap, both mapped to a new "send now" action alongside the existing enter and ctrl+x-enter bindings. - This action immediately sends whatever input is currently queued, interrupting the streaming response if Claude is still replying to a previous message.
- A new
sendQueuedNowmethod implements this, distinct from the existingsubmitEmptyaction, and triggers the telemetry eventinput_send_now_key.
Why
This gives a quick way to force a queued message through right away instead of waiting for the current response to finish.
Names in the bundlechat:sendNow
Documented inclaude-code/interactive-mode
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up chat:sendNow, on Interactive mode.
In terminals that don't report extended keys, `Ctrl+Enter` arrives as plain `Enter` and queues the draft instead; `Ctrl+X Ctrl+S` works in any terminal. Both keys are bindings of the [`chat:sendNow` action](/docs/en/keybindings#chat-action…interactive-mode see the edit
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The finding does not say what key combination triggers this action.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up chat:sendNow, on Interactive mode.