| Remove frames around text |

[eben-satanson]

This should be fairly easy to implement: add --plain-text option and respect CLAUDE_PLAIN_TEXT environmental variable value to suppress generation of frames around prompt and some aspects of responses.

Rationale: Plain text is better when you wan to copy part of conversation (especially code) and insert it in other file/buffer/terminal.

This would help everyone and especially people using claude-code inside GNU Emacs (in vterm or eat mode) and other editors.

Top and bottom are not that annoying (can be replaced with "----" but
| left and right are pain. |

[coygeek]

+1 on this. This is a great suggestion. I run into the same copy-paste friction, especially with the vertical bars on the sides.

For anyone else looking for a solution in the meantime, I found a workaround that might help, especially for grabbing code snippets without the formatting.

If you use the non-interactive print mode with the -p flag, you can specify a plain text output format. The command looks like this:

claude -p "Your prompt here" --output-format text

It just dumps the raw text response, which is perfect for copying. The downside is that it's for one-off tasks, not the back-and-forth of the full interactive REPL.

For a more advanced approach, you might be able to get close to what you want by creating a custom output style with the /output-style:new command. You could try creating a style that instructs Claude to avoid using markdown code blocks or any other frame-like formatting in its responses. Something like /output-style:new I want an output style that responds in raw text without frames or boxes.

Still, I completely agree that a simple --plain-text flag for the main interactive mode would be a huge quality-of-life improvement. Hope the devs consider it

[shukebeta]

+1

Also, when copy a response message from claude code, don't know why there are 2 extra spaces at the beginning of each line. It annoys me a lot. Use margin or padding instead.