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What actually happens when you copy from a terminal or an AI app, and how to get clean text out of it.

Why text copied from Claude Code has broken lines

Copy a reply from Claude Code and it pastes with hard line breaks, a two-space indent and trailing spaces. Here's why the terminal does that, and four ways to fix it.

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Why copying from ChatGPT or Claude loses the Markdown

Paste a ChatGPT or Claude reply into VS Code or a plain text field and the headings, lists and code vanish. What's on your clipboard, and how to keep the Markdown.

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What ⏺ and ⎿ mean in Claude Code

Claude Code marks replies with ⏺ and tool results with ⎿, and both end up in what you copy. What the symbols are, why they're copied, and how to remove them quickly.

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Terminal tables don't paste as tables

Tables drawn with │ ─ ┼ characters in a terminal paste as a jumble of lines. Why it happens, how to convert them to Markdown by hand, and a free tool that does it.

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