In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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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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You can try Amazon Q Developer for free today, by signing up for a Builder ID. You can also check out my other posts on community.aws, as I have been sharing a lot of tips and use cases of how I am using Amazon Q Developer. You can also keep up to date with all the new features and improvements of Amazon Q Developer by checking out the changelog.
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