prompt-toolkit / prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

Some keybindings conflict with others

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Description

The documentation claims I can use c-i, c-h, c-m to mean CTRL+I/H/M, however if you actually map one of these three, they are treated as tab, backspace, and enter respectively. Is there a way to map CTRL + these letters that I'm not seeing?

Perhaps the aliases could be changed to tab, backspace, and enter, unless there's a legitimate reason why they have to take precedence over CTRL+letter keybindings.

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Start by locating the documentation describing c-i, c-h, and c-m, then find the keybinding parsing or alias handling that maps them to tab, backspace, and enter. Reproduce the conflict with a minimal mapping and verify that the documented CTRL-letter behavior or the aliases is corrected.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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