Implement function keys above F12 (F12, F13, ... F24)
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Description
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I am on the latest Hyper.app version
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I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate
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OS version and name: macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra
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Hyper.app version: 2.0.0
Issue
This is an upstream issue (xtermjs/xterm.js#1426), but I thought I'd track it here.
Hyper ignores function-keys to which my other terminals respond:
From my Issue over there:
I spent about an hour digging through the source, to see if I could add this myself; but I have no idea where
KeyboardEvent.keyCodeis coming from. (I tried to test this in the Inspector in FireFox, but I kept running into unrelated issues.)=)
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Research direction
Start with upstream xterm.js issue #1426 and trace how KeyboardEvent.keyCode is handled for function keys. Use the reported F12–F24 behavior as the acceptance check; done means Hyper no longer ignores those keys on the reported macOS setup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100