claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [FEATURE] Provide the ability to disable indentation in CLI for clipboard to function properly [2 comments, 2 participants]

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Problem Statement

There are duplicates for this problem but they are all closed due to inactivity but I feel they deserve to be reopened. It's frustrating not being able to use a clipboard with Claude CLI.

Description

When Claude Code outputs multi-line code blocks (e.g., shell commands), the rendered output includes horizontal padding on both sides. When a user selects and copies this text from the terminal to paste into another terminal or SSH session, the padding characters get included in the copied text, breaking the command.

Steps to Reproduce

Ask Claude Code to output a multi-line shell command in a code block Select the rendered output in the terminal Copy and paste it into another terminal window or SSH session Expected Behavior

Copied text from code blocks should be clean and directly pasteable without extra whitespace or padding characters.

Actual Behavior

The padding around the code block content gets included when copying, which breaks the pasted command.

Impact

This is especially painful when Claude outputs commands that need to be run on a remote server (where Claude can't execute them directly). The user has to manually clean up every pasted command, which defeats the purpose of having Claude generate them.

Proposed Solution

Provide a setting to disable indentation, or allow us to ask claude for output without indentation.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Medium - Would be very helpful

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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