--single-instance on MacOS seems to ignore alt key

[alok]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open kitty (running version 0.10.0)
2. Run kitty -1
3. Type something like alt-t

Unicode shows up, against what macos_option_as_alt yes should do.

[kovidgoyal]

I cannot reproduce, and --single-instance has absolutely nothing to do with other options. Presumably you have another kitty -1 instance running which has macos_option_as_alt set to no and your subsequent invocations are opening new windows in that instance. Remember that all subsequent invocation using --single-instance use the same options as the oiginal invocation (as long as the original is still running).

[alok]

None of my kitty config has that option set to no. It's even explicitly set to yes.

It's odd because the original instance (and I made sure it was the only running instance with ps aux) respects alt, and so do new instances opened with kitty. But if I open a new window with kitty -1, the new window's option key is not treated as alt.

[kovidgoyal]

Oh you mean in subsequent windows, that was not clear from your original description. Does it happen if you open new windows using, ctrl+shift+n?

[alok]

new_window -> works as expected
new_os_window -> doesn't work

the with_cwd variants show the same behavior.

[alok]

Fastest hand in the west with the bugfixes you are. Fixed it before I could even finish typing my reply.

Now I just have to wait for the new minor release to use this.

[alok]

Thanks.