Feature Request: Option to start reading from top of long responses
Status Closed — not planned
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Activity 7 comments · opened Aug 20, 2025 · closed Jan 16, 2026
Problem
When Claude Code provides long responses, we need to manually scroll up to read from the beginning. The
viewport ends at the bottom of the response, which is the opposite of how we naturally read text.
Current Behavior
- Long responses appear in terminal
- Viewport positioned at bottom
- Must scroll up manually to start reading
Desired Behavior
One or both of these options:
- Auto-scroll setting: Option to automatically position viewport at top of responses
- Keyboard shortcut: Keybinding to jump to top of last response
- Works regardless of auto-scroll setting
- Useful when you've scrolled around and want to return to start
Use Cases
- Reading long code explanations
- Reviewing generated code from top to bottom
- Following step-by-step instructions
7 Comments
Would love this feature. When using claude as a tutor for coding exercises etc, it's difficult to scroll up and down when there are pages of responses to get back to the start of the response. Alternatively, it would at least be better to exagerate the highlighting of your last prompts, so that quick scrolling up/down can easily spot the prompt location
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This is still a desired behavior, particularly because it doesn't look like the web version will be in any position to replace the CLI anytime soon.
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Yes, an option to start from the top would be useful. Especially for reading what claude does in "thinking" mode, or when it performs several actions, so there are many pages to scroll up to read where it started.
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This should not be closed. There should be a hotkey to quickly navigate between responses. Also agree with https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6206#issuecomment-3534990843 that the UI could be improved so that it is easier to spot where the answer begins/ends.
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