0xdapper

I admire Thariq and the Claude devs, but I don't agree with their reasoning here. Although as with anything worth discussing I don't entirely disagree with it either. In scrollback mode you allow the terminal emulator to handle selection and copy. Which is fine with lines of soft-wrapped text. As soon as you introduce any kind of formatting (as basic as word wrapping—which should be a given IMHO) that formatting is baked into the scrollback buffer. If you select and copy text you won't get back the original text. It will contain hard breaks and other formatting characters that won't make sense when you paste. Claude recently added prettier diffs. If you select and copy those diffs, you pull in line numbers, the + and - characters, and line breaks that aren't in the original code. There is always going to be this tension between formatting the output for human consumption, and maintaining useful text selection. Its rarely possible to do both.