Ctrl + Enter behaviour to execute R statements like in RStudio

[hcaginlenk]

The problem

In a .qmd document written only with R, Ctrl + Enter only sends the line where cursor is located to the console without running it.

Expected behaviour

Ctrl + Enter would send the whole R statement, whether it is a function or a piped statement ( "|>" ) to the console and run it.

add_zeroes <- function(string) {  
  ifelse( 
     nchar(string) < 8, 
     str_pad(string, width = 8, side = "left", pad = "0"), 
     string 
   ) 
}

For example in the above function, I expect that Ctrl + Enter would send the whole function to the console and run it, as long as the cursor is place within the function boundaries (as in RStudio). Now, the shortcut only sends the line where the cursor is located. If the cursor is in the first line, the shortcut would only send add_zeroes <- function(string) { without running the code.
The behaviour is similar with the pipe statements (that are not invalid or incomplete).

Tried solutions

Opening and closing positron. I use positron in two different computers and the behaviour is the same.

Is there an option I am missing? Thanks in advance!

System details:

Positron Version: 2025.08.0 (user setup) build 130
Code - OSS Version: 1.102.0
Commit: 76ddce5
Date: 2025-08-01T20:29:20.753Z
Electron: 35.6.0
Chromium: 134.0.6998.205
Node.js: 22.15.1
V8: 13.4.114.21-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Quarto extension v1.123.0

[juliasilge]

Thanks for this report! It is definitely expected that Ctrl/Cmd+Enter sends the current entire statement to the console, from an .Rmd or .qmd. I see this working correctly here, where I have used Ctrl/Cmd+Enter with your example:

I see that you say you observe this on two computers! 😱 Do you have any custom keyboard shortcuts defined, or any additional extensions you have installed?

[juliasilge]

Folks had conflicting keybindings set up in #7589 which was a source of a very similar problem.