{"version":"2.1.300","anchor":"prompt-input-shows-virtual-text-spans-at-the-cursor","canonical_anchor":"prompt-input-shows-virtual-text-spans-at-the-cursor","heading":"Placeholder text in the prompt box now lines up with the cursor","tier":"notice","area":"Prompt Input","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.300\/e\/prompt-input-shows-virtual-text-spans-at-the-cursor","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.300","markdown":"### Placeholder text in the prompt box now lines up with the cursor\n\nThe prompt box now draws placeholder text, such as stand-ins for pasted content, together with highlighting and the cursor\n\n**What**\n\nThe prompt box can show text that is displayed but not part of what you typed, such as a placeholder standing in for pasted content. Claude Code now draws that text together with highlighting and the cursor, and keeps track of how positions in your draft match positions on screen. Before, only highlighting was handled.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis may change how pasted text appears in the prompt box.\n\n- Area: Prompt Input\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}