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This is yet another "thing I will forget, so I'm writing a note here" post.

I've been used to using Claude Code inside the IntelliJ plugin.  That plugin is very basic and still in beta, but it works well enough.  All it really does is run Claude Code in the integrated terminal, provide the current file as context, and show changes in the integrated diff viewer.  But it also pre-configures the setting to allow you to press shift+enter in the Claud Code to enter a newline.

If you fire up Claude Code in a Windows Terminal session, this does not work.  To enter a newline, you have to type a backslash followed by enter, which sort of makes sense, but is annoying and unintuitive.  There is a /terminal-setup command, but that also doesn't work in Windows Terminal.  Apparently Anthropic hasn't gotten around to implementing that yet.

Fortunately, there is a work-around.  You can manually add the key bindings to your Windows Terminal configuration.  

"actions": [
  {
    "command": {
      "action": "sendInput",
      "input": "\u000A"
    },
    "id": "User.sendLF"
  }
],
"keybindings": [
  {
    "id": "User.sendLF",
    "keys": "shift+enter"
  }
]

That's what Claude spit out from a scape of Github, anyway.  I originally got it from a Redit post that said essentially the same thing, but now I can't find it.  Either way, it seems to work just fine.

This is another one of those "note to myself because I can never remember this" posts. 

For quite a while, I've been using the vim-ps1 plugin for Powershell syntax highlighting.  It's generally fine, but I have one annoyance with it: When I open a Powershell file, the plugin opens a horizontal split with a Powershell terminal in it.  That's...fine, but most of the time I don't want that.  And the documentation doesn't say anything about it.

Well, fortunately there's a resolved Github issue with the answer.  Turns out the issue isn't actually with vim-ps1, it's with coc-powershell, which actually does mention this issue in the docs.  Why the language server is popping up a terminal window isn't clear to me, but the solution is to add this to your coc-settings.json file:
"powershell.integratedConsole.showOnStartup": false

Easy fix!  Unfortunately, I can't check that into my vim-config Git repo because I have my Intelephense license key in that file, so I need to document it someplace else.  Hence this post.

As an aside, before scouring the web for that answer, I tried asking Claude.  That didn't go well.  It's first answer was to "look at your Vim config" or try disabling plugins, which was not even remotely useful.  When I pointed that I knew there was a setting for this, it asked me where I saw it.  If I remembered that, I wouldn't need to ask the AI!  At that point, I decided it was easier to do this the old-fashioned way and ended up checking the Github issues and found the solution in a couple of minutes.

Things like that make me appreciate William Bernstein's comments in his interview with Rob Berger.  When asked about using AI in his writing and research, he said that AI is extremely useful, but it's kind of like having a very dumb graduate assistant.  That seems about right to me.  Even a dumb grad student is still smart enough to get into grad school, so they're capable of doing some very helpful work, but they still have some significant limitations.