[BUG] When terminal sends Focus In/Out events (DECSET 1004), [ I / [ O appear in input. Expected: handled/ignored.
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 9 comments · opened Nov 10, 2025 · closed Jan 6, 2026
Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
- [x] This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
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When I blur the terminal pane (WezTerm), [O shows up in the input; when I focus the terminal pane (WezTerm), [I shows up in the input. These two reporting are activated when there are multiple terminal panes in the same tab on WezTerm.
What Should Happen?
These two events should be handled gracefully by Claude Code. It could also be explored as user behavioral metrics.
Error Messages/Logs
Steps to Reproduce
- Open WezTerm
- Run
claude - Split the tab window using Shift + Ctrl + Alt + %
- Use Shift + Ctrl + Arrow Keys to jump between the two windows, or simply click around with mouse
- See focus event characters pop up in Claude Code input box
Claude Model
Sonnet (default)
Is this a regression?
I don't know
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
2.0.36
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Other
Additional Information
_No response_
9 Comments
in my case, this starts happening only after editing a prompt in an external editor (with ctrl+g), before the first use it doesn't happen, but it will persist across the terminal session
Running into this in Ghostty too. Quite annoying.
Also reproducible using Windows Terminal (in my case via ssh to a Linux box)
I also have the same problem. my stack: macos+ghostty+tmux. I confirm that the problem is triggered by the usage of an external editor with ctrl+g. I use neovim as editor.
I also have this issue - started happening a couple of weeks ago if I am not mistaken.
Using alacritty with Tmux, and it happens regardless of ctrl+g editing in nvim. It happens every time I switch/focus/blur from the tab that I keep Claude in - midly infuriating actually.
I'm seeing this same issue when using Claude Code inside tmux. When I switch to the Claude Code window the text
[0[I]appears in the input. I'm using Kitty terminal with tmux and haveset -g focus-events onin my tmux config (needed for various terminal applications that rely on focus events).Disabling focus events (
set -g focus-events off) fixes it, but then other terminal applications lose important functionality. It would be great if Claude Code could handle these focus event sequences properly like other TUI apps do.I wrote a short golang wrapper for claude that strips these focus events from inputs to claude (https://github.com/samuelstevens/claude-unfocused) that I alias to claude and it resolves my issues. It would of course be better for claude code to fix this.
As of 2.0.67 this seems to be fixed. Will close out after some continued observation.
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