Cannot paste text with paragraphs anymore.

[Stam2000]

Issue

When trying to paste a text with multiple paragraphs, only the first paragraph will be pasted, and Aider will directly attempt to handle the query.

For example, with the following text:

First paragraph
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum.

///// THE PASTING OPERATION WILL STOP HERE, AND AIDER WILL TRY TO RESPOND

Second paragraph
Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Version and model info

Aider v0.73.0

[martineliascz]

I have the very same issue..

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue. This doc may be helpful:

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/commands.html#entering-multi-line-chat-messages

[martineliascz]

@paul-gauthier This behavior was definitely changed in Aider v0.73.0. When downgraded to Aider v0.72.0 - the "Paste a multi-line message directly into the chat" feature is no working flawlessly again. I will stick to the Aider v0.72.0 for a while before pasting multi-line code is fixed, as this is a must-have. Thanks! 🙏

[Stam2000]

@martineliascz can you please share with me the command line to downgrade to the version v0.72.0 ?

[paul-gauthier]

It's possible that the version bump of prompt toolkit changed something:

-prompt-toolkit==3.0.48
+prompt-toolkit==3.0.50

[paul-gauthier]

Can you try installing the latest aider and then downgrading prompt toolkit?

Also, which OS are you using? I can not reproduce this problem on OSX regardless of aider and prompt toolkit versions.

[martineliascz]

@paul-gauthier Thank you for the tip!

I managed to pinpoint the issue, and it indeed stems from the prompt-toolkit upgrade as you suggested..

Downgrading prompt-toolkit to version 3.0.48 resolves the problem, even when using aider v0.73.0. However, version 3.0.50 of prompt-toolkit causes the stock Command Prompt to skip newlines and execute commands immediately, which disrupts functionality. Interestingly, pasting multiline code works perfectly in the Windows Terminal with prompt-toolkit v3.0.50. This confirms that the issue is specific to the default Command Prompt.

So far, I've encountered this problem only on Windows 10, with no issues observed on macOS.

@Stam2000 – Simply run pip install prompt-toolkit==3.0.48 on your Windows machine or consider switching to the Windows Terminal, available from the Microsoft Store.

[Zombiedenden]

I'm having this issue on Windows 10 home as well that seems to be connected to v0.73.0. It was working well in v0.72.0 but after that I have been having these multiline issues.

The above fix didn't work for me however.

Also, I am coding on the same codebase on my Macbook and everything is fine over there. Its just an issue on windows.

Edit: i can paste multiline if i use { on the first line and use shift enter to go to the next line. this works fine but is really clunky, otherwise when i paste multline text it just tries to execute the first line, responds, then tries to execute the next line, etc.

[martineliascz]

Hi @Stam2000 and @Zombiedenden Thanks for reporting the issue and voting for it.

The issue hasn't been fixed even on v0.74.2.

So I recommend to either do this: pip install prompt-toolkit==3.0.48 or pip install aider-chat==0.72.0

This has to work as this worked for me on Windows as well as macOS.

[paul-gauthier]

I'd recommend opening a bug report with prompt-toolkit.