modifierKeys altIsMeta on Canary 9 build

[saamalik]

• I am on the latest Hyper.app version
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate * (there were but closed now)

HI guys,
I'm on the latest canary.9 build of hyper. Unfortunately, the altIsMeta modifier is not working as expected. Whenever the key combinations alt+f (move word forward), alt+. (last argument of the previous command) are pressed, some random silly looking special character is added.

I'm on Mac OSX and trying to use the Option button as the alt key. Here is the relevant section from the .hyper.js:

module.exports = {
  config: {
    modifierKeys: { altIsMeta: true },
...
}

[saamalik]

Related bugs:
#330 (Closed now)
#2251

[saamalik]

Can anyone else please confirm the same issue?

[albinekb]

Hello @saamalik! This is probably due to the upgrade of the terminal rendering/handling lib xterm to the latest v3. I don't know exactly why this has stopped working but thanks for reporting!

[saamalik]

Corresponding issue on underlying terminal: xtermjs/xterm.js#487

[saamalik]

Found a temporary solution. Add the following to your ~/.inputrc file:

"ƒ": forward-word
"∫": backward-word
"≥": yank-last-arg

And restart your terminal (or run bind -f ~/.inputrc). It's a temporary solution since still other bashrc shortcuts do not work (e.g: alt+1, alt+2, ..). Hopefully a more generic solution is found.

[saamalik]

@albinekb proposed fix in underlying xterm.js library: Mac OSX: altIsMeta support

[albinekb]

A w e s o m e work @saamalik 🙏 😍