Copying text from CLI in iTerm2 inserts hard line breaks at terminal wrap boundaries
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 7, 2026 by stephviz Closed May 11, 2026
Summary
Selecting and copying Claude Code output from iTerm2 produces clipboard text with hard newlines wherever the terminal soft-wrapped the line for display. Pasting into a chat surface, doc, or editor requires manually re-flowing the text into paragraphs.
Environment
- Terminal: iTerm2
- OS: macOS (Darwin 25.4.0)
- Claude Code version: 2.1.132
Expected
Clipboard preserves the logical paragraph structure of the rendered output — soft wraps introduced for terminal width should not become hard newlines.
Actual
Every visual wrap point becomes a \n in the clipboard.
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