When editing in multiline mode, you can lose your entire current text with an errant "down arrow" keypress.
Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Jul 1, 2025 by jblachly Closed Jan 9, 2026
Environment
- Platform (select one):
- [X] Anthropic API
- [ ] AWS Bedrock
- [ ] Google Vertex AI
- [ ] Other: <!-- specify -->
- Claude CLI version: 1.0.38 (Claude Code)
- Operating System: Darwin MacBookPro.localdomain 24.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:54:49 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
- Terminal: iTerm2
Bug Description
When editing in multiline mode, you can lose your entire current text with an errant "down arrow" keypress.
Steps to Reproduce
- Enter some text (multi-line or not)
- Hit enter
- Interrupt with "esc" because you meant to hit shift-enter and keep editing.
- Hit "up"
- Resume editing
- Get to last line and hit "down" -- text entry clears
- Hit "up" to get back to editing
- Only the prior text that was sent and aborted with "esc" is still there
_i.e.,_ Claude obliterated all the extra text you got done entering. Unfortunately, I lost 20 minutes worth of detailed prompt work that I definitely next time will work on in an external editor and paste in.
Expected Behavior
I expected my text entry not to be expunged
Actual Behavior
Claude remembered the previous "sent" entry rather than the updated form
Additional Context
n/a
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