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Command + Delete Not Working in Hyper with Fish Shell on MacOS

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Description

  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version

  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

  • OS version and name: MacOS Sonoma Version 14.2 (23C64)

  • Hyper.app version: 3.4.1

  • Link of a Gist with the contents of your hyper.json: Link

  • Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere): N/A

  • The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Should be

Issue

  • When using Hyper with fish shell, the Command + Delete does not work. Here is what it prints:
⋊  testing
testing: nothing appropriate.
kostard at Magic Box in ~
⋊  testing
  • When changing to zsh, it works as expected (removes all the symbols on that line until the pointer)
  • This issue was mentioned here, but the described issue was marked as "Can't reproduce".

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the shortcut in vanilla Hyper.app with fish on macOS Sonoma, then compare its behavior with zsh and review the terminal's key-handling entry point. Done means Command+Delete removes characters back to the cursor in fish without invoking a shell command.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fish, macos
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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