Code block rendering adds leading spaces to lines after the first
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 23, 2026 by hamr0 Closed Jan 27, 2026
Description
When Claude Code renders multi-line markdown code blocks in the terminal, it adds leading spaces to lines after the first line. These spaces are actual characters in the terminal buffer, not visual padding.
Steps to Reproduce
- Ask Claude Code to output a multi-line code block
- Copy the code block content
- Run
xclip -selection clipboard -o | cat -Ato inspect
Expected Behavior
All lines in a code block should have consistent indentation (no leading spaces added by rendering).
Actual Behavior
line1$ ← no leading spaces, has newline
line2% ← TWO leading spaces, no newline
The first line has no leading spaces, but subsequent lines have 2 leading spaces added.
Impact
- Copy/paste of code blocks requires manual cleanup
- Heredocs fail because delimiters (like
EOF) have leading spaces - Shell commands may fail due to unexpected indentation
Environment
- OS: Linux (Ubuntu)
- Terminal: Kitty
- Claude Code: Latest version
Workaround
Strip leading whitespace after copying:
xclip -selection clipboard -o | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | xclip -selection clipboardThis issue has 3 comments on GitHub. Read the full discussion on GitHub ↗