Copied text includes 2-space leading indentation from rendered output

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1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18170
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15199
3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13378

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This is quite annoying as it means when copy/pasting output from CC you first have to paste it into an IDE and unindent each line by 2 spaces.

It would be great if Claude Code could output without the two space indentation

··Would be great to either:
··- Remove the left padding from rendered output, OR
··- Add a setting in settings.json to disable the indent, OR
··- Strip the padding when text is copied to clipboard.

··written by claude code with 2 leading spaces each row

After using Claude Code all day, every day for months, it was only today that I learned of the /copy command.

Better late than never!

Another issue is that long link in Claude code is broken in Windows terminal, because the indentation.
Can we have a setting to remove them?

<img width="1898" height="393" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c954bc16-a742-4645-a418-cd0ddeaf4426" />

Workaround for those who need clean output now: in a separate terminal (outside Claude Code), run watch -n1 "cat /tmp/claude/response.md | sed 's/^ //'" to monitor the file. Then, within Claude Code, run /copy after any response you want to read cleanly — this writes the last response to /tmp/claude/response.md and
the watch command will immediately display it without the leading spaces.

Please we need to be able to copy commands just from the terminal, everything else is taking too long.

most terminals pad their content anyways so its just a useless feature to pad the whole CLI program with 2 spaces..

I run into issue with this all the time doing terminal work with indent sensitive config updates, python, etc. Even an obscure setting to turn off the indent would be a huge win.

+1 - please address this. My current workaround is to ask claude to write to a tmp file which I then copy-paste from, but its quite tedious.

+1

for a while now, Claude Code CLI offers a custom selection mode that overrides the terminals own text marking:

<img width="1717" height="1495" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2619c430-0238-4ea5-baa5-9783673a1668" />

this fixed the issue for me.
as you can see, it copies without the left padding.

def greet(name="world"):
    message = f"Hello, {name}!"
    print(message)
    return message

if __name__ == "__main__":
    greet()

I dont know if this works in other terminals, but on Windows with the Windows Terminal and Claude Code CLI running in WSL, it works remarkably well.

Single paragraphs are even copied correctly as single lines until there is a real line break

I used to ask Claude Code to write to a file for me, but then built this tool to fix the issue: https://pypi.org/project/unwrap-terminal-text/

It's simple, but I really do find myself using it multiple times a day now

Mac users:

• iTerm2: Cmd+Option+drag
• Terminal.app: Option+drag