[FEATURE] Keyboard shortcut to navigate between user prompts

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.139
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 11, 2026

Preflight Checklist

  • [x] I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet
  • [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

When having long conversations with Claude Code, it's very difficult to scroll up and down to find where exactly an answer started. The terminal scrollback makes it hard to quickly locate previous user prompts and their corresponding responses.

Proposed Solution

Add a keyboard shortcut to jump between user prompts in the conversation. For example:

  • Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down to navigate to previous/next user prompt
  • Or a dedicated key combo like Ctrl+P to jump to the previous prompt

Alternative Solutions

_No response_

Priority

Medium - Would be very helpful

Feature Category

Configuration and settings

Use Case Example

When Claude provides a long response and you want to re-read it from the beginning, currently you have to manually scroll through the terminal buffer trying to find where your prompt was. A quick navigation shortcut would significantly improve the user experience.

Additional Context

There is another issue with this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16784

There is also comment "This issue was fixed as of version 2.1.139." - but for me in the newest version "Ctrl+Up" does nothing in Claude Code.

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