Kitty: Can't enter a tilde character

[joa]

Expected Behavior

Entering text works.

Actual Behavior

On my Mac, I enter ~ by pressing Alt+N. This doesn't work in Kitty. Same goes for all other characters that require Alt as a modifier key, like €, ™, é, ´ etc.

I am using the "U.S. International - PC" layout as this provides me the option to enter characters like ä by entering " followed by an a for instance. (" is " and then space). Maybe this is some weird IME issue?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Switch to "U.S. International - PC" on a Mac
2. Press Alt+N in the GitHub comment box to verify you get a ~ character.
3. Press Alt+N inside Kitty

[kovidgoyal]

Set macos_option_as_alt=no in your kitty.conf to use alt as a compose key.

[kovidgoyal]

Sorry make that

macos_option_as_alt no

in kitty.conf

[Luflosi]

IMHO macos_option_as_alt no should be the default since macOS users new to kitty seem to get confused quite often when their alt key does not work like pretty much everywhere else.

[kovidgoyal]

It used to be the default then users would get confused because alt based shortcuts would not work in their terminal applications. There's no really good solution for this.

[Herz3h]

I think that it should be the default too, I'm new to kitty, I tried kitty few days ago and I stopped using it because my option key wouldn't work and I had no idea why.... Maybe the user should be prompted upon first launch if he wants this or not ?

[kovidgoyal]

Dunno, in my experience popus on first run are usually ignored because the user is focused on getting to the app.

[joa]

Alt-Shortcuts (or at least the subset I am used to) are working without additional configuration in Terminal.app -- as well as the unicode input mode.

Seems like there is some middle ground?

[kovidgoyal]

I dont see how that's possible. In terminal.app run cat and type option+a you will either get a with a little circle on top or ^]a (which is alt+a) depending on the value of the setting "Use Option as meta key" in the terminal.app preferences under keyboard