codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix Prompt history is shared across threads [2 comments, 3 participants]

TL;DR

The issue can be potentially resolved by implementing a thread-specific prompt history feature or adding a setting to choose between local and global history.

Guidance

• The current implementation of the up arrow functionality seems to be retrieving the last prompt from the global history, regardless of the current thread.
• To verify the issue, launch multiple threads with different prompts and scroll through history using the up arrow to confirm that it shows the last prompt from any thread.
• A potential workaround could be to store prompt history separately for each thread, allowing the up arrow to retrieve the last prompt from the current thread's history.
• Consider adding a setting to allow users to choose between local (thread-specific) and global history for the up arrow functionality.

Notes

The issue lacks information about the current implementation and technical details, so the provided guidance is based on the described behavior and may not be comprehensive.

Recommendation

Apply workaround: Implementing a thread-specific prompt history feature or adding a setting to choose between local and global history could resolve the issue, as it would allow users to control how the up arrow functionality behaves.