I use the Code tab in the Claude Desktop App and find that a superior experience since everything you expect from a desktop app works: copy/paste, undo/redo, automatic formatting of text as you type it, multiline input etc which just doesn’t in the TUI. It requires preparing th environment a little bit so that when Claude runs commands it has the same access as a terminal but I got it working easily enough.
All of those: copy/paste, undo/redo, multiline input work for me in my TUI. I wonder if different environments have different behaviors. (Not sure about automatic formatting of text. I usually format my text manually.)
It works differently and in a much more limited manner. Can you select text in the middle of a prompt and delete it? Can you paste anywhere? How do you enter multiline input?? That cannot work unless explicitly handled by the app, terminals don’t have a general way to do it in a TUI. The formatting I am talking about is color highlighting and block code snippets. If you have a terminal that can do that do let me know!!
