Terminal: Pane split vertically is different on non-English keyboard layouts

[pellelauritsen]

I'm using an English/US Windows 10 Pro 18362 with Danish keyboard layout. And the short cut for pane split vertically is Alt + Shift + "+"

[enricoreich]

Same here with german/DE keybord layout on a german Windows 10 1909.

[VikingScientist]

Norwegian keyboard and I observe the same thing. I assume it is intentional as the = key is already hidden behind a shift modifier. Anyway, I'm mostly happy with the current solution so I only think the documentation needs an update.

My only complaint is that multi-language keyboard setups use shift+alt as the hotkey to change between english and native keyboard layouts. This causes some confusion when combined with the fact that alt+shift is heavily used in pane control. Note that "split vertically" (shift+alt+ '+') does not change layout, but "I think I'm going to add another tab, but on second thought I had a change of heart" (shift+alt), will change your keyboard layout; and consequently move the new pane button to a different place on your keyboard.

[hanubeki]

I saw the line in defaults.json:

{ "command": "splitVertical", "keys": [ "alt+shift+plus" ] },

So I think the release note for v0.7.3291.0 is not correct.

[DHowett-MSFT]

I assume it is intentional as the = key is already hidden behind a shift modifier.

Yep, that was me simplifying the release notes based on my US-104 keyboard. The true binding is alt+shift+plus, which can be expressed differently depending on your keyboard.

For a US-104 keyboard, alt+plus and alt+shift+= are synonymous with alt+shift+plus. Unfortunately, that doesn't hold for everyone else.

I'm going to file a followup issue for the Shift+Alt thing and close this one out when the release notes get updated.