Juan Abadie whoan

Getting Shift+Enter to Work in Claude Code with iTerm2 and tmux

Shift+Enter in Claude Code inserts a newline without submitting your prompt—essential for writing multi-line code or complex queries. However, getting this key combination to work reliably through a terminal stack involving iTerm2 and tmux requires configuration at multiple layers.

This guide explains both the fix and the reasoning behind it.

Quick Start

If you just want it working, here's what you need:

Run Chef scripts locally

There are several options to run recipes:

using chef-client with -z option
using chef-apply
using chef-solo

Before running Chef recipes on the machine, it should be prepared:

	//solution
	sudo apt install gnupg2 pass