You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Terminal UIArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.280,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The dimmed hint text that Claude Code shows under menus and dialogs, listing available keyboard shortcuts, now groups certain paired actions into a single combined hint instead of listing them separately. The pairs affected are select previous/next, confirm previous/next, and tabs next/previous; each now shows both key combinations together in one entry. Separately, the underlying logic that figures out which part of the screen a keypress applies to can now fall back to a nested chain of scopes when nothing nearby defines one directly.
Why
This makes the hint bar more compact and easier to scan by showing related shortcuts as one entry rather than two.