Summary
In the Claude Code CLI's chat UI, right-clicking on highlighted/selected text in the conversation history no longer shows a basic Copy option. The context menu only offers Claude-Code-specific actions, leaving no obvious way to copy a subset of a message via the right-click menu.
This appears to be a regression — previously selecting text and right-clicking would surface the OS-level Copy alongside (or instead of) the Claude-specific actions.
Steps to reproduce
- In an active Claude Code chat session, highlight a portion of text in a message (assistant's output, ideally — but applies to user messages too).
- Right-click on the highlighted text.
Actual behavior
Context menu shows only:
- Copy message
- Copy as Markdown
- Attach selection as context
- Pin as chapter
No plain "Copy" / "Copy selection" / "Copy highlighted text" option.
Result: to copy a subset of a message, the user must either copy the entire message and paste-then-trim elsewhere, or use Cmd-C after a manual selection (which works, but contradicts the affordance the right-click menu implies — selecting text + right-clicking is a near-universal copy gesture).
Expected behavior
Selecting text + right-clicking should surface a basic Copy option that copies only the highlighted selection to the clipboard — alongside the Claude-Code-specific actions (which are useful and should remain).
This matches behavior in essentially every other macOS app and was, per user report, previously present in Claude Code itself.
Environment
- Claude Code: 2.1.141
- OS: macOS 26.5 (build 25F71)
- Apple Silicon Mac
Workarounds
- Triple-click to select a full line, then Cmd-C
- Highlight + Cmd-C (works but contradicts the right-click affordance)
Summary
In the Claude Code CLI's chat UI, right-clicking on highlighted/selected text in the conversation history no longer shows a basic Copy option. The context menu only offers Claude-Code-specific actions, leaving no obvious way to copy a subset of a message via the right-click menu.
This appears to be a regression — previously selecting text and right-clicking would surface the OS-level Copy alongside (or instead of) the Claude-specific actions.
Steps to reproduce
Actual behavior
Context menu shows only:
No plain "Copy" / "Copy selection" / "Copy highlighted text" option.
Result: to copy a subset of a message, the user must either copy the entire message and paste-then-trim elsewhere, or use Cmd-C after a manual selection (which works, but contradicts the affordance the right-click menu implies — selecting text + right-clicking is a near-universal copy gesture).
Expected behavior
Selecting text + right-clicking should surface a basic Copy option that copies only the highlighted selection to the clipboard — alongside the Claude-Code-specific actions (which are useful and should remain).
This matches behavior in essentially every other macOS app and was, per user report, previously present in Claude Code itself.
Environment
Workarounds