[FEATURE] Fullscreen TUI: show a scroll-position indicator (scrollbar) while paging with PgUp/PgDn — keyboard-only, no mouse drag
What
In /tui fullscreen there is no scroll-position indicator of any kind. When I page through a long transcript with PgUp/PgDn I cannot tell where I am, how much is above me, or how far a page moved me.
Ask — deliberately narrow
Show a scrollbar (a thin track + thumb on the right edge) while keyboard scrolling is happening — appear on PgUp/PgDn/arrow scrolling, fade out a moment after the last scroll key — so it works as a position indicator. Keyboard-only is enough; mouse grab-and-drag can be a separate, later task. This is the part of the closed request #62929 that I care about, split out so it can be judged on its own.
Why this and not "add a scrollbar"
The earlier request (#62929, 4 upvoting comments, closed by the stale bot 2026-09-14) bundled position awareness with mouse drag. The open cousins also bundle things: #88372 asks for a draggable scrollbar in fullscreen, #72215 reports scrolling itself broken on Windows, #83840 (stale-labeled) wants mouse-speed navigation. A transient, keyboard-driven indicator is the smallest slice that solves the "where am I in this transcript?" problem, and it avoids the mouse-capture questions those issues raise.
Steps to reproduce
/tui fullscreen(or"tui": "fullscreen"in settings).- Run any session long enough that the transcript exceeds one screen.
- Press PgUp a few times.
- Observe: the transcript moves, nothing on screen indicates the position or the remaining length.
Environment
- Claude Code 2.1.272 (also seen on every version since 2.1.15x).
- Linux (NixOS) in tmux via eternal-terminal / mosh; also macOS 26 iTerm2 + tmux. Same behavior with a config-free tmux server (
tmux -f /dev/null). - Renderer: fullscreen.
Related
- #62929 — original request (closed stale 2026-09-14; this is the position-indicator half of it).
- #88372 — open: draggable scrollbar + position indicator in fullscreen (mouse-centric).
- #72215 — open: fullscreen has no scrollbar and keyboard scrolling does nothing (Windows).
- #83840 — open, stale-labeled: scrollbar for faster mouse navigation.
- #70309 / #61171 / #71491 — closed: native terminal scrollbar lost in the alt-screen renderer.
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