Up arrow in te text entry box always brings previous message for editing

[symsymsym1]

Describe the bug
Pressing ↑ in the message entry box loads the user’s most recent sent message into the editor, even if there is another draft being edited at the moment.

To Reproduce

1. In any LLM chat, type any message and send it to the model
2. Start typing another message.
3. Press up (a few times if the message is multiline)
4. The current draft is replaced with the previous message. It's still possible to get back by pressing down, but it's a major ergonomic inconvenience.

Expected behavior
Pressing ↑ in the message input loads the user’s most recent sent message into the editor only if the input is empty.
If the input already contains text, ↑ behaves normally (e.g., moves the cursor within the text) and does not replace the current draft. When the cursor is in the first line, pressing ↑ does nothing.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Witsy Version 3.5.0

[nbonamy]

Hello,

the behavior in Witsy is:

• if you press ↑ while not in the first line, goes up one line
• if you press ↑ on the 1st line but not on 1st character, goes to the beginning
• if you press ↑ on the 1st character, goes back in history

This has been implemented as part of 3.5.0.

Just tested on macOS and Windows and it seems to work.

Is it not what you see?

Thanks
Nicolas

[symsymsym1]

Yeah, Witsy behaves exactly as you described.

However, from the workflow perspective, it creates ergonomic issues. If you have a long-ish prompt and press up a few times to get to the very beginning of the prompt, this behavior takes you to previous prompts instead.

The common convention (for example, as documented by Slack) is to populate the previous message only if the editing field is empty. I think most users expect this flavor.

If it's a feature, maybe it's possible to make it switchable via settings?