You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Terminal UIArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.323,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude Code can adjust your terminal so that keyboard shortcuts work, through /terminal-setup and during first-run setup. For Apple's Terminal.app, the wording changed.
The /terminal-setup description for Apple Terminal now mentions turning on "Use Option as Meta key".
The first-run terminal-setup prompt now explains that Terminal.app setting. It also says: "If you say yes, restart Terminal.app for the changes to take effect." Before, it showed a one-line label, "Option+Enter for newlines".
Separately, messages shown when a session is removed now say "removed" instead of "deleted". For example, "Session deleted and its worktree removed" now reads "Session removed and its worktree deleted".
Why
You now see what the setup will change in Terminal.app, and that you need to restart Terminal.app before it takes effect.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged first-run setup in Terminal.app to name the "Use Option as Meta key" setting, what Option stops typing, and how to undo it before…
