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Terminal Key-Map Sets for/from iTerm & other Terminals #2205
Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
This feature request was requested by an early-adopter of Terminal at a review meeting.
It'd be great if Terminal could implement a set of key-mappings that mimic most/many of iTerm's most common key-mappings.
This would help users who're already familiar with iTerm
We should also take a look at key mappings for other common Terminals and see if we can introduce "key-mapping sets" or preconfigured "key-maps" allowing the user to select and/or switch between key-maps on the fly, perhaps per-tab since some shells/apps/tools may be better suited to one set of key-maps than others.
If other Terminals store their key-mappings in settings/config, we could even permit importing of keymaps & converting them into Terminal key-mappings.
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DHowett-MSFT commentedon Aug 5, 2019
Somebody has to spec this. Rich Turner (@bitcrazed), want to do the honors?
zadjii-msft commentedon Aug 19, 2019
Ooh this is a subset of #2237
zadjii-msft commentedon Jan 7, 2022
Documenting publicly for posterity:
I think our unofficial plan has been to add support for "keymaps". This would follow the work for #1571 / #6899. Then,
keymapswould contain objects which bind keys to various actions. The user could then just specifykeymap: "foo"to replace all theirkeybindingswith the ones infoo, no layering involved. Adding keys to actions directly would just update the "default" keymap, which is used when nokeymapis specified.Profiles could also just set a
keymaprelatively easy then. That's still weird - different profiles having different keys for an app-level command likenewTab, but hey, if that's what people want, that's what they get.