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Alt key not working on a Mac (German keyboard) :)
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Description
I really would like to map my left option key to alt. The solution in #1006, however, is not suitable, since some characters (@, ~) and maybe a handful others require the use of an unmapped option key.
I don't know if this is possible at all, but remapping those keys ( -> '@') wouldn't work either, because then it would work inside the editor, but not in the terminal.
Any ideas?
OS: macOS 11.6 intel
Terminal: iTerm 3.4.12
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Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is identified. Investigate how micro handles Option-key input on macOS and whether it can preserve characters such as @ and ~ for the terminal while mapping the left Option key to Alt; done requires a defined, reproducible behavior in macOS with iTerm.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, macos
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100