keybindingFlavor
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.238 and was gone by v2.1.284.
Deprecated and has no effect; the word-editing shortcuts always follow readline conventions
Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-10-22.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names keybindingFlavor.
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v2.1.261
keybindingFlavor setting deprecated; classic word-editing mode removed
The keybindingFlavor setting is deprecated; prompt word-editing always follows readline conventions now.
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.238
New
keybindingFlavorsetting for readline-style prompt editingSet keybindingFlavor to readline and Ctrl+W deletes back to whitespace like Bash does.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted keybindingFlavor was v2.1.238, 20 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
61One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.