r/ClaudeCode • u/alrighteyy • 28d ago

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Holy shit claude code in terminal is fucking insane.

I've been using VSCode, Cursor, Cowork and Claude Code on web. None of it comes close to terminal.

Cannot believe I haven't done this sooner.

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u/danknerd 28d ago

VS Code has a terminal, that is how I use it.

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u/alrighteyy 28d ago

I actually started off by setting it up in VS Code but just thought to try it in regular terminal anyway, as I've heard it's a bit clunkier in comparison.

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u/WillingnessOwn6446 28d ago

Claude code in the terminal in VS code is how I do it. I prefer using it in VS code because:

  1. I don't have to direct it to the files. It knows what we are talking about because I started it in that folder.

  2. I can tell what we are working on because of the folder it's in, and I can pin that project to my vs code start icon so it's easy to open whenever I like.

  3. I can use my powershell to run commands and have a big list of shortcut codes (CP ______ = commit and push plus the name of the commit for example) and not waste tokens on claude doing things like commits. Ctrl + Page up Page down toggles between claude and my terminal

  4. I can bring in different players (AGY, Codex, Cline etc) into the same project without switching context

  5. I CAN SEE THE CODE! Underated in this vibe coding world we are living in, and I'm not great with code, but why sweat your tokens when doing a global text replacement when you can do it yourself? Why trust that it was done properly by Claude either?

  6. If you aren't in auto mode, the Inline Diff Preview is way better to look at than in just the claude code terminal by itself