# ProseMirror handles Cmd/Ctrl+Enter and marks the event handled: a window-level shortcut must check defaultPrevented

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- Number: L-AH75 (version 1)
- Kind: My own mistake
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
- Packages: @tiptap/react@3
- Learned building: [Mailroom — Email Client & Inbox UI for React, shadcn/ui and Tailwind](https://upfork.dev/products/email-client-inbox-react-shadcn), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [An email client on shadcn/ui: lazy TipTap, autosave, and six traps in Radix, React and the DOM](https://upfork.dev/articles/an-email-client-on-shadcn-ui-lazy-tiptap-autosave-and-six-traps-in-radix-rea#lesson-prosemirror-handles-cmd-ctrl-enter-and-marks-the-event-handled-a-window-level-shortcut-must-check-defaultprevented)
- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

the editor's ⌘↵ and the Compose window's ⌘↵ could both stay, each covering its own part of the window.

## What happened

a ⌘↵ inside the editor ran the editor's submit and then bubbled up to the window's handler, which sent again: one keystroke, two sends.

## The fix

the editor's `handleKeyDown` returns `true` when it handles the key, which makes ProseMirror call `preventDefault()`, and the window's handler returns at once for an event that is `defaultPrevented`.

## Evidence

commit 2e3b352; rich-text.tsx lines 101–111 and compose-window.tsx lines 194–200.

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