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Compose chars conflict with meta keys

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🎨 Type: Enhancement
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Description

  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version (I am not, I've built it myself.)
  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate
  • OS version and name: macOS 10.12.1
  • Hyper.app version: aa410812a55b66c9fb53443b75345395357a1973
  • Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: N/A, default config with modifierKeys: { altIsMeta: true }
  • The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Yeah.

Issue

In #686, support for using alt as meta on osx was added. In #1006, support for composed chars, including using alt+n to type ~ on my keyboard was added.

Unfortunately, both settings conflict with each other. If I use alt as a meta key, I can no longer use alt+n to type ~. This is somewhat expected, but iTerm found a way around this and it would be super handy if Hyper could do as well!

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Research direction

Review the behavior described in issues #686 and #1006, then reproduce it on macOS with the default .hyper.js setting modifierKeys: { altIsMeta: true }. The issue is done when alt+n can compose ~ while Alt continues to function as a Meta key, matching the requested iTerm behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, typescript
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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