Mac terminal: text selection for copying intermittently stops working

Status Closed — duplicate
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Activity 3 comments · opened Jun 9, 2026 · closed Jun 13, 2026

Bug Description

Selecting text in the Claude Code terminal on macOS for copying has become unreliable. Text selection frequently fails to register, drops mid-drag, or the selected text doesn't get copied when pressing Cmd+C.

Platform

  • OS: macOS
  • App: Claude Code (terminal / CLI)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Claude Code terminal on macOS
  2. Attempt to click-drag to select text in the terminal output
  3. Observe that selection often fails to appear, deselects immediately, or Cmd+C does not copy the selected content

Expected Behavior

Text selection and copy (Cmd+C) should work reliably every time.

Actual Behavior

Text selection intermittently fails — the selection highlight may not appear, may vanish immediately after releasing the mouse, or the clipboard doesn't receive the selected text after Cmd+C. This happens frequently.

Frequency

Often / frequently. Appears to be a regression.

Additional Context

This worked reliably before. The behavior seems to have regressed at some point and now fails often enough to be disruptive.

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