Yesterday, I resumed a former claude code session in order to copy code it had generated earlier in that session. Unfortunately, when resuming, it only prints the last N hundred lines of the session to the terminal, so what I was looking for was cut off.

I think that for this sort of _interactive_ application, there's no avoiding the need to manage scroll/history.

That conversation should still exist in the Claude Code log files. Just give Claude some context on how to find it, and it will pull whatever you need. I use this to recall particularly effective prompts later on for reuse.