Let me expand & edit a collapsed multi-line paste in the prompt (in-place, no external editor)
Problem
Pasting multi-line text into the interactive prompt collapses it to a [Pasted N lines] placeholder. There's no way to expand that back into the input buffer to edit the pasted lines in place. The only edit path is Ctrl+G (external $EDITOR), which pulls you out of the Claude Code window entirely.
Use case
Claude generates a list in the conversation (e.g. a per-item checklist). I want to paste that list into the prompt and annotate it line-by-line, while scrolling up in the same window to reference Claude's earlier notes.
This bites hardest on a laptop with limited screen real estate: the external-editor workaround (Ctrl+G) assumes you can view the editor and the Claude Code transcript at the same time, but on a small screen you can't tile vim/Sublime and the CC window side-by-side and still read/type in either. In-window editing is the only ergonomic option there — you edit in place and scroll the same pane up to reference earlier output.
Repro
- Paste > (threshold) lines into the prompt.
- It becomes a
[Pasted N lines]chip. - There's no keybinding/gesture to expand the chip into editable text.
Request (any one)
- A keybinding to toggle a paste chip between collapsed ⇄ expanded-editable.
- A setting/threshold to disable auto-collapse (paste stays as raw editable text).
- Make the chip editable in place.
Env: Claude Code v2.1.207, macOS, laptop, vim input mode.