Text Blaze is an outstanding tool and a productivity booster for anyone working with text and automation online. However, many users—including myself—face a significant limitation when using Text Blaze snippets in prompt-based user interfaces, such as ChatGPT and other AI systems. I would like to suggest an improvement that could greatly enhance the product’s fit with current workflow trends.
Issue:
Currently, when expanding a snippet that requires input via the dialog box (using a form variable), pressing Enter or clicking the Insert button immediately closes the dialog and submits the expanded text. In prompt-based UIs, this often triggers the send/submit action before the snippet can fully render multi-line content or place the cursor at a designated location within the snippet. This blocks advanced use cases like repeated variables, special line breaks (Shift+Enter), cursor positioning, and other Text Blaze features that are otherwise supported in normal fields.
Impact:
The intersection between the growing population of AI UI users (hundreds of millions globally) and Text Blaze users is becoming significant and will keep growing.
Many of your current and future customers need to quickly and reliably draft, expand, or template prompts for advanced AI systems, not just emails or chats. This is a high-value, high-frequency workflow.
If Text Blaze does not optimize its submission logic for these contexts—allowing multi-line snippet expansion and reliable cursor positioning—it risks becoming less relevant for a fast-growing segment of its user base.
The inability to save time and reduce friction in AI-related prompting directly undermines the main promise and value proposition of Text Blaze as a productivity and automation tool.
Suggestion:
Allow the Insert button in the snippet input dialog to trigger snippet expansion and cursor placement without issuing an Enter/send event to the target field, especially in common prompt-based UIs.
Alternatively, allow Shift+Enter, Tab, or a different shortcut to confirm the variable input and perform the expansion, while keeping the prompt open for further edits, or ensuring all snippet features are fully executed before sending.
Ideally, make this behavior configurable in the settings, so users can choose how snippet expansion interacts with Enter and Insert in different types of fields.
Final thoughts:
You likely have received similar feedback already, but as prompting for AI systems becomes ever more central to daily workflows, this adjustment will be critical to retain and grow your customer base. Thank you for considering this request and for continuing to deliver a fantastic product!
I am unable to reproduce the issue, though. When I try inserting a snippet into the message box on ChatGPT.com, the chat is not automatically submitted when the prompt is inserted.
Does this issue occur on another site? Or maybe it is something about the snippet you are using? I tried this one without issue:
This is the type of snippet I am trying to use while prompting in Perplexity and ChatGPT.
This example summarizes what I am finding in my workflows. The keyword is "çpinifin". It opens the dialog box. I fill the text field named , in this case with the value "codeFile_v3.cs".
Then I tried: pushing Insert, typing Enter or typing Shift+Enter.
And I get this undesired result:
Part of the text gets expanded (the first line) , but the prompt gets sent to the IA before I can continue my prompting.
The rest of the expanded text shows up below the IA answer, as if I would have just typed it at the start of my next prompt.
The result should be:
Once I filled the value in the text field ... there should be a way to get the value validated and get the text expansion finished without sendig the propmt.
As you can see in the two images I attached, I tried with two version: one with the cursor getting back to a desired position, and other one not touching the cursor.
-------------------- Inicio de: codeFile_v3.cs ----------
< ---- here the cursor
-------------------- Final de: codeFile_v3.cs ----------
Then I would paste some code where the cursor is placed, move below the snippet and keep prompting. with more lines /snippets / whatever until I finalize and then, press Enter. This would sent my prompt to the IA.
I am sorry, but if I remove the shift+enter commands then I will not get the new lines that I want.
I really don't understand your suggestion. Of course, if I remove all the enter commands (with or without the shift+ ) the promt will not be sent. But I will not have the lines I want.
I think I don't understand you. Are you telling me that there neither can be Enter nor Shift+Enter keys y the extended texts generated by the sinppets in ChatGPT or Perplexity?
Thanks for your advice about AI Text Blaze for further enquires, but if you tell me that I have to remove these Enter and even the Shift+Enter , then there is not too much to ask to the AI, is there?
