Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.14 Navigating through your prompt history

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Ok, time for today’s tip….

Tip 14 - Guiding Amazon Q : Navigating through your prompt history

In one of the earlier tips I covered why I enable the auto-update for the Amazon Q Developer plugin. It seems that every week, sometimes daily, we get cool new updates and features. Today’s tip covers a really nice improvement. For those of you familiar with using the bash/zsh shells, (and not forgetting my days using Powershell too), you could recall previous prompts using the up and down arrow key.

In my daily review of the Amazon Q Developer plugin release log I got excited by the following:

Feature Navigate through prompt history by using the up/down arrows

You can now use the up and down arrows to cycle through your previous prompts. You can see this in the following short video

Things to know

The prompt history only exists for the current sessions, so once you exit VSCode, all those prompts are not persisted and when you re-start VScode.

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