[BUG] left and right cursor navigation and delete key work, sometimes.

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Aug 7, 2025 by mceachen Closed Jan 6, 2026

Environment

  • Platform (select one):
  • [x] Anthropic API
  • [ ] AWS Bedrock
  • [ ] Google Vertex AI
  • [ ] Other: <!-- specify -->
  • Claude CLI version:1.0.70
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04
  • Terminal: Gnome terminal

Bug Description

Aside from the still-broken @-file browsing (#5247), the latest claude code now sometimes decides to swallow and ignore repeated keystrokes -- holding the left or right cursor key, or the delete key, will work for 20-30 characters, and then just hang.

Also, sometimes typing will wedge -- like the javascript event loop is busy with something other than input. Please consider using a background thread (or threads) for anything taking longer than 10ms -- waiting seconds to see if a keystroke was registered is not great for a terminal user interface.

If there are any profiling or logging I can enable to help you locally reproduce, I'd be happy to help.

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