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📣 fouronnes3

A terminal with normal keyboard shortcuts


I'm using kitty with a few custom settings and it's a great experience. Except my terminal is the only app on my system where the following very basic shortcuts are all different due to legacy reasons, and it's starting to drive me crazy the more I think about it.

* CTRL-backspace: use CTRL-W (except not really because tokenization is different)

* CTRL-C: use CTRL-SHIFT-C

* CTRL-V: use CTRL-SHIFT-V

* etc...

Is there a terminal project out there that attempts to fix this madness by using standard system shortcuts for text input, and remaps the useful terminal shortcuts to other key combinations (like CTRL-C, I sill want to send SIGTERMS obviously).


  👤 aumerle Accepted Answer ✓
Configure kitty to do that if that's what you like: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#shortcut-kitty.Copy-to...

And ctrl-backspace can similarly be conf though in your shell not the terminal.