Oni: Ctrl-^ not work

[meijieru]

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[badosu]

I can confirm that lately I have not been able to use <C-^> as well, using the latest stable version

[bryphe]

Thanks for the report, @meijieru and @badosu! This seems to be related to the keyboard layout - I'm wondering if it is being picked up as a dead key.

Would it be possible to grab the logs from the console when you execute that keystroke?

• Control+Shift+P -> Open DevTools
• Enter Oni.log.enableDebugLogging()
• Switch back to Oni and execute the key press. You should see some [key event] logs in the console, like this:
  

This can help narrow down how the key press is being resolved / what's going wrong.

In addition, knowing what the keyboard-layout module sees as the current language, would be helpful, too:

You can check that by running the require("keyboard-layout").getCurrentKeyboardLanguage()

Thanks the report & your help!

[meijieru]

@bryphe Sorry, I am not familiar with node js, so where should I enter this command Oni.log.enableDebugLogging()? I try it within console, but it says this is undefined.

[meijieru]

Anything new?

[CrossR]

What version of Oni are you currently using?

I'm able to use <Ctrl+^> on the latest build, so its possible its working now.

If that doesn't work, the place you'd enter Oni.log.enableDebugLogging() and require("keyboard-layout").getCurrentKeyboardLanguage() is in the Chrome dev tools. You access that with <Ctrl+Shift+P> and typing Dev tools.

[badosu]

@CrossR I am using the latest stable (0.3.1) and this issue persists. This is the output on a normal Oni installation:

< require("keyboard-layout").getCurrentKeyboardLanguage()
> "us [0]"

[CrossR]

Hm, mine works on US and UK keyboards, but I've only tested on Windows.

What is the output of the verbose log?

I get the following for 3<Ctrl+^>.

[badosu]

Ok, it seems that <Ctrl-^> is working, but the help text makes it seem like <Ctrl-6> should work as well (that's how I used it previously).

I am fine using <Ctrl-^> if that's not a bug.

                            *CTRL-^* *CTRL-6*
CTRL-^          Edit the alternate file.  Mostly the alternate file is
            the previously edited file.  This is a quick way to
            toggle between two files.  It is equivalent to ":e #",
            except that it also works when there is no file name.

            If the 'autowrite' or 'autowriteall' option is on and
            the buffer was changed, write it.
            Mostly the ^ character is positioned on the 6 key,
            pressing CTRL and 6 then gets you what we call CTRL-^.
            But on some non-US keyboards CTRL-^ is produced in
            another way.

This is my <Ctrl-6> output:

[CrossR]

I'm a bit of a buffers newbie, but the behaviour for me (again Windows only currently, I should probably test on my Arch box) is the same behaviour as in nvim-qt and nvim in the terminal.

For other platforms though, we could have a keyboard capture issue, but it looks as if <Ctrl-6> is being picked up correctly.

[badosu]

@CrossR Makes sense, I've been using Oni for a while so maybe my memory on my previous workflow is not as good (which works with <C-^> now).

The pending issue now is for @meijieru to check if it's working for him and to provide his debug details.

[meijieru]

@badosu .
So is it possible to enable < c - 6 > as well?

[badosu]

@meijieru It is working for me at the moment without any configuration, can you confirm if you still can't use it in Oni on the last stable release (0.3.1)?

[meijieru]

@badosu Github conceal the . I am using 0.3.1 now, and not.

[CrossR]

Looks like this might have been "sorted" over in #2002.
We could use this ticket to track adding a default keybind, if we think its needed.

Though we could just end up adding a keybind that causes people issues, so we'd have to be careful to make sure its easily disabled....May just make more sense to add documentation around it instead?

[badosu]

@CrossR Yes, per https://github.com/onivim/oni/issues/2002#issuecomment-377691048 it seems it's safe to assume <C-^> is the canonical keybinding.