Add ability to recall the last response

[drewzemke]

Hi! First of all, thanks so much for making this; I use sc daily and it has quickly become one of my essential tools.

I've found that I often ask sc a question in one place and then wish I could see the response again in another place. For example, I get a code snippet from sc in a terminal pane, then moments later wish I had the response in my editor. Or I closed the terminal pane and then forgot what the response was (this happens too often). It would be nice to have a quick way to see that message again.

I've considered writing my own little utility to extract the last message from conversations.toml, but I was wondering if this would make sense as a smartcat feature. Being able to run something like sc --recall-last (or sc -R?) to get that last response would be pretty neat, and I can see it working nicely with #40.

Let me know what you think. I'd be happy to try my hand at this and open a PR if you think the feature would be a good addition!

[efugier]

Hey interesting use case, I actually never needed it.

How often does that come up? You always have the option to repeat the question, or ask the model to repeat his last answer. I'm trying to gauge whether it would justify an extra feature or not.

My first thought would be to remain loyal to the unix philosophy and use another dedicated tool to parse the conversation.toml file, you can alias the command if you need it often.

An example would be yq:

yq eval '.messages[-1].content' .config/smartcat/conversation.toml

and you could alias that to lm for last_message for instance, or sclm or whatever suits you!

Let me know if that would be enough for you!

[efugier]

Also

I use sc daily and it has quickly become one of my essential tools.

That's much appreciated and I am so glad you find it useful 😁

[drewzemke]

Heyo, sorry for taking so long to get back to you! I took your advice and used yq (which I didn't know existed) to create little a shell script that does exactly what I wanted. So thank you again! I'll close this 😄