Proper MacOS Shift+option+arrows sequences

[lokot0k]

Hi! I installed your plugin and everything seemed great, but shift+option+arrows sequences weren't working for default apple terminal. I saw that this not only me and problem was mentioned before in the issue #2 So, I figured why this is the case. For some reason, terminal doesn't see option key as modificator of sequence by default. To enable such behaviour, it's needed to check "use option as meta key" checkbox in Terminal > Settings > Keyboard. After this, sequences produced with pressed option key will be modificated. But sequences will be different from these that are in config. So, it's needed to replace mac-relation bindings to:

for	kcap   seq          seq_mac    widget (             # key name
        kLFT   '^[[1;2D'    x          backward-char        # Shift + LeftArrow
	kRIT   '^[[1;2C'    x          forward-char         # Shift + RightArrow
	kri    '^[[1;2A'    x          up-line              # Shift + UpArrow
	kind   '^[[1;2B'    x          down-line            # Shift + DownArrow
	kHOM   '^[[1;2H'    x          beginning-of-line    # Shift + Home
	x      '^[[97;6u'   x          beginning-of-line    # Shift + Ctrl + A
	kEND   '^[[1;2F'    x          end-of-line          # Shift + End
	x      '^[[101;6u'  x          end-of-line          # Shift + Ctrl + E
	x      '^[[1;6D'    '^[^[[D'  backward-word        # Shift + Ctrl/Option + LeftArrow
	x      '^[[1;6C'    '^[^[[C'  forward-word         # Shift + Ctrl/Option + RightArrow
	x      '^[[1;6H'    '^[^[[H'  beginning-of-buffer  # Shift + Ctrl/Option + Home
	x      '^[[1;6F'    '^[^[[F'  end-of-buffer        # Shift + Ctrl/Option + End
);

I suggest add this information into "Known issues" article to help others since your plugin provides very helpful and useful keybindings!

[mn1712trungson]

Same problem with:
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (Mid, 2012)
Checked "Use option as meta key" | Shift + Ctrl/Option + Left/RightArrow
zsh and Terminal don't really handle the protocol properly.

[StoicaRares14]

Updated the list to include shift + cmd +left/right arrow

for	kcap   seq          seq_mac    widget (             # key name
		kLFT   '^[[1;2D'    x          backward-char        # Shift + LeftArrow
		kRIT   '^[[1;2C'    x          forward-char         # Shift + RightArrow
		kri    '^[[1;2A'    x          up-line              # Shift + UpArrow
		kind   '^[[1;2B'    x          down-line            # Shift + DownArrow
		kHOM   '^[[1;2H'    x          beginning-of-line    # Shift + Home
		x      '^[[97;6u'   '^[[1;10D' beginning-of-line    # Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + A/LeftArrow
		kEND   '^[[1;2F'    x 		   end-of-line          # Shift + End
		x      '^[[101;6u'  '^[[1;10C' end-of-line          # Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + E/RightArrow
		x      '^[[1;6D'    '^[[1;4D'  backward-word        # Shift + Ctrl/Option + LeftArrow
		x      '^[[1;6C'    '^[[1;4C'  forward-word         # Shift + Ctrl/Option + RightArrow
		x      '^[[1;6H'    '^[[1;4H'  beginning-of-buffer  # Shift + Ctrl/Option + Home
		x      '^[[1;6F'    '^[[1;4F'  end-of-buffer        # Shift + Ctrl/Option + End
	); do

Also while using ghostty + oh-my-zsh, the behaviour works perfectly.

[chrs-alt-esc]

@StoicaRares14 I tried using your config, but I was unable to get it working properly. I'm probably doing it wrong though.. How were you able to get it working with ghostty + omz?

[StoicaRares14]

@crscobar My ghostty setup doesn't change any keys, so it doesn't affect the zsh setup.

• Maybe it depends on the version of mac you're using, so maybe your keyboard sends a different signal than mine. You can check what signal you're sending by typing cat then press enter and then do the key combinations that you need and you'll see the signal sent. Put those in the seq_mac column where you need them and make sure you save these changes inside the plugin's zsh folder, then restart your terminal and you should be good to go.

• Another thing that might cause issues is that you're having another plugin that may interfere with this one. I have them ordered like this:
  plugins=( deno zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting git zsh-shift-select )

[chrs-alt-esc]

@StoicaRares14 Thanks for the reply. I tried both suggestions, my keyboard is sending the same signals as the ones in your config and re-ordering the plugins did not fix it unfortunately.
Is the for loop keybinds code supposed to go in the ~/.zshrc or another place?

[StoicaRares14]

@crscobar in the home directory you should have a .oh-my-zsh folder. Inside there you should either have a plugin/zsh-shift-select or custom/plugin/zsh-shift-select. Inside there you should see a file that has .zsh extension. Open that one in whichever text editor you like and you'll see the for i am talking about there. Replace that for with the one i've pasted above and it should work after you restart your terminal.

[chrs-alt-esc]

@StoicaRares14 Thank you for the help! Was able to get it working correctly now :)

[madcapnmckay]

This worked for me in wezterm if I add the below to the wezterm config.

-- MacOS text navigation
{ key = "LeftArrow",mods = "OPT", action = act.SendString("\x1bb") },
{ key = "RightArrow",mods = "OPT", action = act.SendString("\x1bf") },
{ key = "LeftArrow",mods = "CMD", action = act.SendString("\x01") },
{ key = "RightArrow",mods = "CMD", action = act.SendString("\x05") },
-- Send Shift+Home and Shift+End sequences for text selection
{ key = "LeftArrow", mods = "SHIFT|CMD", action = act.SendString("\x1b[1;2H") },
{ key = "RightArrow", mods = "SHIFT|CMD", action = act.SendString("\x1b[1;2F") },