{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"free-text-option-in-select-prompts-can-open-an-external-edit","canonical_anchor":"free-text-option-in-select-prompts-can-open-an-external-edit","heading":"Free-text answers in choice prompts can be written in your own editor","tier":"use","area":"Prompt Input","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/free-text-option-in-select-prompts-can-open-an-external-edit","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Free-text answers in choice prompts can be written in your own editor\n\nChoice prompts with a type-your-own-answer option can now open your external editor through the `chat:externalEditor` key binding\n\n**Unclear.** Which prompts offer the external editor is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nSome prompts ask you to pick one or several options, and one option can let you type your own answer. While that option is selected, the `chat:externalEditor` key binding can now open your external editor (the text editor named in your `$EDITOR` setting) to write the answer.\n\nBackspace in that answer now deletes one whole character, including characters such as emoji that are stored as several parts. Before, it could delete only part of such a character.\n\n**Why**\n\nLong answers are easier to write and fix in a full editor than in a one-line box. This only works in prompts that are set up to offer it.\n\n- Area: Prompt Input\n- Names: `chat:externalEditor`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}