Claude Code Hotkeys

This page covers Claude Code shortcuts and input triggers across five sections: General controls, Text editing, Theme and display, Multiline input, and Quick commands. It includes macOS, Windows, and Linux variants where the official docs distinguish them.

On macOS, Option or Alt shortcuts such as Option+B, Option+F, Option+Y, Option+M, and Option+P depend on the terminal treating Option as Meta. The Claude Code docs call out iTerm2, Terminal.app, and VS Code as terminals where this may need to be enabled.

Shift+Enter works out of the box in iTerm2, WezTerm, Ghostty, and Kitty. In terminals like VS Code, Alacritty, Zed, and Warp, the Claude Code docs recommend running /terminal-setup to install the binding.

No. Claude Code documents a few platform-specific bindings. Model switching uses Option on macOS versus Alt on Windows and Linux, and image pasting varies by platform and terminal.

For code blocks and logs, the Claude Code docs also describe a paste mode where you can paste content directly. This page keeps that behavior in FAQ because it is an input method rather than a standard keybinding.