tabby-nv-shift-enter

A Tabby plugin that customizes the behavior when a hotkey (default: Shift+Enter) is pressed in the terminal.

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Features

• Backslash + newline mode — sends \ followed by a newline, enabling line continuation in shells (bash, zsh, etc.)
• Newline-only mode — sends only a newline character
• Custom text — fully configurable text to send, with escape sequence support (\n, \t, \\)
• Live preview — visual preview of the configured text in the settings panel
• Multilingual UI — settings panel supports English and Japanese (follows Tabby's language setting)

Installation

Install via Tabby's plugin manager:

1. Open Tabby → Settings → Plugins
2. Search for tabby-nv-shift-enter
3. Click Install

Or install manually:

Note: Manual installation requires the package to be available on npm. If the command returns "Not found", use the plugin manager instead.

# macOS
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/tabby/plugins
npm install tabby-nv-shift-enter

:: Windows (Command Prompt)
cd %APPDATA%\tabby
npm install tabby-nv-shift-enter

# Windows (PowerShell)
cd "$env:APPDATA\tabby"
npm install tabby-nv-shift-enter

Usage

1. Open Settings → NV Shift Enter to configure behavior
2. Toggle Include backslash before newline on or off
3. If enabled, customize the text to send (default: \ + newline)
4. Open Settings → Hotkeys, find "Send configured custom text", and assign your preferred key (default: Shift+Enter)
5. Press the hotkey in any terminal tab to send the configured text

Configuration

| Option | Default | Description | |--------|---------|-------------| | Include backslash | true | Send custom text (with backslash) instead of a plain newline | | Custom text | \\\n | Text sent when the hotkey is pressed. Supports \n, \t, \\ |

Custom text examples by shell

| Shell | Custom text | Notes | |-------|------------|-------| | bash / zsh | \\\n | Default — backslash + newline | | PowerShell | ` \n | Backtick for line continuation | | CMD | ^\n | Caret for line continuation | | WSL / Git Bash on Windows | \\\n | Same as bash/zsh |

Requirements

• Tabby v1.0.197-nightly.1 or later

License

ISC