[FEATURE] Keyboard shortcut to navigate between user prompts
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — claude[bot]
Activity 8 comments · opened Jan 8, 2026 · closed May 12, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (claude[bot], contributor)
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Preflight Checklist
- [x] I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet
- [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)
Problem Statement
When having long conversations with Claude Code, it's very difficult to scroll up and down to find where exactly an answer started. The terminal scrollback makes it hard to quickly locate previous user prompts and their corresponding responses.
Proposed Solution
Add a keyboard shortcut to jump between user prompts in the conversation. For example:
Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Downto navigate to previous/next user prompt- Or a dedicated key combo like
Ctrl+Pto jump to the previous prompt
Alternative Solutions
_No response_
Priority
Medium - Would be very helpful
Feature Category
Configuration and settings
Use Case Example
When Claude provides a long response and you want to re-read it from the beginning, currently you have to manually scroll through the terminal buffer trying to find where your prompt was. A quick navigation shortcut would significantly improve the user experience.
Additional Context
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8 Comments
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not only scroll up to the place where the answer started, but also keep the prompt line available on the bottom to allow writing a response with the answer available in front of me without needing to scroll up and down constantly
Great idea
+1. I usually have several Claude Code sessions open in different terminal tabs and cycle through them as tasks progress. When I switch back to a tab, the first thing I need to do is re-orient — find my last prompt and read Claude's response from there.
Right now that means scrolling up over potentially huge blocks of output, and the visual contrast between user prompts and Claude's output is low enough that it's easy to scroll right past what I'm looking for. A shortcut like Ctrl+Up/Down to jump between prompts would make this workflow dramatically faster.
This pairs well with #13591 (sticky input) — together they'd solve the two biggest navigation pain points in longer sessions.
+1 Simply want to voice support for this feature. This would remove so much friction when having long responses especially with multiple CC running concurrently.
Same. I created the same issue, and gave thumbs up to this one, canceled mine instead.
There is obviously a need for this, and it should not be that hard or time consuming to implement.
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