Unable to remap control and shift on MacOS (Kitty terminal emulator)

[rkshthrmsh]

Remapping the control and shift keys on MacOS is not working (Kitty terminal). I understand that the option key requires remapping to alt on MacOS as mentioned in #2280. But I could not find anything similar for the control and shift keys. Here is a part of the config.toml:

[keys.select]
"C-esc" = "remove_primary_selection"

[the-mikedavis]

What version of Helix and Kitty terminal are you running? It is possible to bind commands to this key-combination now after #4939 has been merged if you are using a terminal emulator that supports the enhanced keyboard protocol (Kitty does).

I'm not sure if this is a typo in the post but that key combination in the config.toml example is holding Ctrl and hitting Escape rather than Shift. We can't bind keys to presses of modifier keys like Ctrl, Shift or Alt - the key combination also needs any other non-modifier key.

With an example config of:

[keys.normal]
C-esc = "toggle_comments"

and pressing Ctrl+Escape, I see toggle_comments being run when running Helix from master.

[rkshthrmsh]

I am on Helix 22.12 and Kitty 0.27.1.
With the config.toml, I was just giving an example of a key combination that I could not bind. Have tried both C- and S- without success.

[the-mikedavis]

Are you building Helix from source? #4939 is the change that allows remapping C-esc and S-esc and it was merged more recently than the 22.12 release. Also see https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Terminal-Support#enhanced-keyboard-protocol

[rkshthrmsh]

I am not. Will try it out soon. Any idea when this might be bundled into a release?

I will close this issue now. Thanks for the help, @the-mikedavis.

[the-mikedavis]

We try to cut a release every few months (see https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/FAQ#when-will-the-next-release-be). We're tentatively thinking of mid/late March for the next release if we can find the time to review and merge everything we want to.