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May 17 • Help

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Hey, looking for help from anyone running Claude Code in VS Code's integrated terminal.

I cannot scroll back through the chat history. Mouse wheel cycles past prompts (command history) instead of scrolling the chat. Shift+scroll, Page Up, Ctrl+Shift+arrows — none of it works.

Weirdly, scroll DOES work when I shrink the terminal pane really small (the scrollbar appears on the right). The second I make the pane bigger, the scrollbar disappears and I'm back to no-scroll. Some kind of alt-screen threshold thing.

Already tried:

- Latest Claude Code (2.1.143, confirmed up to date)

- Killed all ghost node.exe processes

- Hard refresh / reinstall

- Different terminal profiles

Anyone solved this without bouncing to claude.ai/code in browser? Looking for a way to actually use it in VS Code's terminal at a normal pane size with working scroll. the bar on the right is gone i just can't scroll throughout the conversations. i may have pressed too many buttons lol

Windows 11, VS Code latest, PowerShell.

Appreciate any tricks.

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