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keybindingFlavor no longer has any effect in Claude Code (2026)
keybindingFlavor is deprecated and inert in Claude Code v2.1.261 and later. The readline word-editing behaviour it gated is now on for everyone. Ctrl+W deletes back to whitespace while the Alt keys stop at punctuation, and neither can be rebound: the keybindings reference documents 115 actions and none of them is a word-editing action.
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