use Ctrl-n instead of Alt-n on macOS #1106
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To use
alt
-n
modifiers on macOS the user must configure their terminal emulator to mapoption
toalt
. This isn't obvious -- hence issues have been raised here about those shortcuts not working -- but, moreover, doing so preventsoption
-3
being used to type#
on British Macs.This change adds a configuration option
ctrl_n_shortcuts
, setfalse
by default, that replaces the numerical shortcutsalt
-n
withctrl
-n
ones.This PR only adds
ctrl
-n
support, wheren
is a number: it does not affect thealt
-b
oralt
-f
shortcuts.