ALT + does not work in 0.63.0.* (regression?)

Daniel Sokolowski - Mon 09/12/2013 00:11:38 CET +0100

Hi all, I have an older version of Kitty 0.62.2.3p in which ALT + Left and ALT + Right correctly jumps for word bundries wheres in Kitty 0.63.0.3 and 0.63.0.4 the short cut no longer works.

I can not figure it out but have observed the following:

- I am hitting the same server and loging under same user with both Kitty's
- I have gone through the session settings in each Kitty and they are identical
- CTRL+V (I think used to echo the sequence following) shows different results in the two version, taking ALT + Left arrow as the example we get:
-- Kitty 0.63.0.4: root@sh1:~# [[1;3D (cursor is past the D character)
-- Kitty 0.62.2.3p: root@sh1:~# [ (and the cursor is now position at the character)

So in 0.62.2.3p ALT + arrow keys to jump word boundries work but not in 0.63.0.3-4.

Any thoughts?

Daniel Sokolowski - Mon 09/12/2013 00:15:22 CET +0100

Forgot to add pressing ALT + Arrows results in following characters:

root@sh1:~# CCCDDD

That's three ALT + Left and three ALT + Right

Daniel Sokolowski - Mon 09/12/2013 00:18:25 CET +0100

Adding following lines to '/etc/inputrc' on a Debian machine and doing a relogin fixes the issue:

# added be me to work with Kitty 0.63.0.* as here http://9bis.net/kitty/?action=forum&id=0450
"[[1;3D": backward-word
"[[1;3C": forward-word

However I would still like to know why the original ALT + Left arrow and ALT + Right arrow key sequence stopped working.

Floris - Thu 12/12/2013 13:43:27 CET +0100

Two other posts about the same (but also without a real solution):
http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=forum&id=0432
http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=forum&id=0420

chR - Wed 05/02/2014 16:12:22 CET +0100

It's not a good idea to change /etc/inputrc on every _target_ device and as it depends on the KiTTY version I would propose to fix it there.

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