keybindings macos

[urielz]

How have you installed cordless

• Arch User Repository
• Snap
• scoop
• brew
• go get

What happened

All keybindings of the form Alt + ? do no work (Ctrl + ? do work, so it's not a problem with all shortcuts).

System information

macos 10.13.6

[Bios-Marcel]

Which terminal emulator are you using? Sounds like your terminal emulator is capturing the keystrokes before corldess can evaluate them. There isn't really a fix for this, since it's not a bug. But maybe there could be different sets of default keybindings depending on the terminals TERM environment variable.

[Bios-Marcel]

As for a workaround, currently the shortcut changer is on Shift + Alt + S, therefore you probably can't change any shortcuts either ... in that case you'll probably have to manually edit the shortcuts.json file or use a different terminal emulator to change the shortcuts and then swap back to your old one.

[urielz]

Thanks for the answer. I'm using iTerm2, but I also try with the vanilla terminal packed in macos.

Sounds like your terminal emulator is capturing the keystrokes before corldess can evaluate them

If this is the case, I find surprising that Ctrl+I and Ctrl+O are working... ?

I'll take a look at the json file. Thank you.

[Bios-Marcel]

According to @sumpunk on discord it's because Mac OS uses the Alt key to alternate between different characters, so it's different from Windows and Linux and might not be related to the terminal emulator after all 🤷‍♂️

[Bios-Marcel]

I have kinda neglect this issue since i didn't find a good solution. Manually editing the shortscuts is kinda dumb as a workaround. So I think i'll just allow starting cordless in a "shortcut changemode" with some parameter.
Like cordless --shortcut-dialog. That's a workaround for those, that already have broken shortcuts. Going further, I gotta change the defaults. Maybe I can have different shortcut defaults for different systems as well.

[Bios-Marcel]

@urielz Hey, I just did what i mentioned: 6d67c34

You can now run cordless --shortcut-dialog, this might lower the pain a bit ^^

[urielz]

@Bios-Marcel Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[Bios-Marcel]

So, i even changed the shortcut for the dialog to Ctrl-K now and indicate it at the bottom of the app. I'll be closing this for now. I guess i'll still have to choose better defaults at some point. Maybe different ones depending on the OS.

[maciejpk]

I know that this issue is closed, but since it's iterm2 issue and I just came across it:

This post will help you:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/197092

Cmd+., Profiles, Keys and choose Left option Key acts as: +Esc.

Works for me in emacs, though I'm not sure if it will have any other undesirable effects.

It might be a good idea to include this in some OSX FAQ related to iTerm2