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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"`ask_user` tool should allow Ctrl-G to support long freeform answers","articleBody":"### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve\n\nTo support multi-paragraph long freeform answers, allow the user to compose a response to the `ask_user` tool in their $EDITOR\n\n### Proposed solution\n\nWhen describing situations to Copilot CLI, it is often helpful to provide additional context and information.\n\nCurrently, if an `ask_user` is going in the wrong direction, the user can either type in the freeform answer spot, which works poorly if more than few lines, for example, #3722, or the user can Ctrl-C to kill the `ask_user` tool, then hit Ctrl-C a second time to stop Copilot from continuing, and then finally type Ctrl-G to enter into $EDITOR to compose the desired response to the `ask_user`.\n\nAdditionally, since the user had to leave the `ask_user` tool with Ctrl-C, if the user later decides they want to respond to the `ask_user` tool with a non-freeform answer, the option is gone since the tool is no longer running.\n\nThe user experience would be improved if Ctrl-G were allowed _during_ an `ask_user` tool call.\n\n### Example prompts or workflows\n\nHere's a screenshot of an example of the issue:\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1013\" height=\"560\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/01228a96-42ac-4565-9cb6-437d7645a8b6\" /\u003e\n\n### Additional context\n\n_No response_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pmer","@type":"Person","name":"pmer"},"datePublished":"2026-07-07T14:34:03.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/4050/copilot-cli/issues/4050"}