Support multi-line messages

[dfellis]

It doesn't seem possible to write multi-line messages at the moment. I've been following these API docs from slack so far to figure out how to <@someone> or <!here> the room, but it's you can't just type \n as is implied in these docs to get a multi-line comment out.

It would be nice if \n was parsed properly, or an even better solution of entering a multi-line mode (perhaps with <shift+i> where you have to type something like <shift+enter> to actually send your message (then it would be simple to copy a stack trace straight into a message instead of needing to reformat it in vim).

[smarquez1]

Is there any workaround for this?

[deviantfero]

maybe allowing to seamlessly open an external editor to do this for us? it would really great.

[jpbruinsslot]

Reference #188

[jpbruinsslot]

I really tried to find if it was possible to allow \n in the messages, however I wasn't able to yet find the specific option in nlopes/slack that would allow this. I've tried several escape and parse options, but to no avail.

[samhh]

Seconding @deviantfero's suggestion - Tridactyl and some other WebExtensions allow you to open an external editor, for example Vim, on a keybind and then once you exit said editor the contents are piped back as input. It's really nice and should be possible here too.