Ctrl + i are interpreted as tab on MacOS

[BastienVigneron]

What Operating System(s) are you seeing this problem on?

macOS

Which Wayland compositor or X11 Window manager(s) are you using?

No response

WezTerm version

wezterm 20240203-110809-5046fc22

Did you try the latest nightly build to see if the issue is better (or worse!) than your current version?

No, and I'll explain why below

Describe the bug

Ctrl + i is interpreted as a tab (in helix for ex.).

Seem linked to https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1851

To Reproduce

No response

Configuration

-- Pull in the wezterm API
local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

-- This will hold the configuration.
local config = wezterm.config_builder()
local act = wezterm.action
-- This is where you actually apply your config choices

-- For example, changing the color scheme:
config.color_scheme = 'Catppuccin Mocha'
-- config.color_scheme = 'Catppuccin Macchiato'
config.font = wezterm.font {
  family = 'Cascadia Code',
  -- stretch = 'Expanded',
  weight = 'Light',
}
config.font_size = 15.0
config.bold_brightens_ansi_colors = "BrightAndBold"
config.window_decorations = "RESIZE"
config.send_composed_key_when_left_alt_is_pressed = true
config.use_fancy_tab_bar = false
config.scrollback_lines = 3000
config.status_update_interval = 2000
config.initial_rows = 48
config.initial_cols = 150
config.max_fps = 120
config.foreground_text_hsb = {
  hue = 1.0,
  saturation = 1.1,
  brightness = 1.5,
}
config.inactive_pane_hsb = {
  saturation = 0.8,
  brightness = 0.7,
}

config.mouse_bindings = {
  -- Ctrl-click will open the link under the mouse cursor
  {
    event = { Up = { streak = 1, button = 'Left' } },
    mods = 'CTRL',
    action = wezterm.action.OpenLinkAtMouseCursor,
  },
}

config.keys = {
  -- {key = "v", mods = "CTRL", action = act.SplitVertical {domain = "CurrentPaneDomain"}},
  { key = "v",          mods = "CTRL",       action = act.SplitPane { direction = "Down", size = { Percent = 20 } } },
  { key = "h",          mods = "CTRL",       action = act.SplitHorizontal { domain = "CurrentPaneDomain" } },
  { key = "-",          mods = "CTRL",       action = act.DecreaseFontSize },
  { key = ")",          mods = "CTRL",       action = act.IncreaseFontSize },
  { key = "k",          mods = "SUPER",      action = act.ClearScrollback("ScrollbackAndViewport") },
  { key = "LeftArrow",  mods = "CTRL|SUPER", action = act.ActivateTabRelative(-1) },
  { key = "RightArrow", mods = "CTRL|SUPER", action = act.ActivateTabRelative(1) },
  { key = "l",          mods = "SUPER",      action = act.ShowLauncher },
}

wezterm.on("update-status", function(window, pane)
  -- Workspace name
  local stat = window:active_workspace()
  local stat_color = "#f7768e"
  -- It's a little silly to have workspace name all the time
  -- Utilize this to display LDR or current key table name
  if window:active_key_table() then
    stat = window:active_key_table()
    stat_color = "#7dcfff"
  end
  if window:leader_is_active() then
    stat = "LDR"
    stat_color = "#bb9af7"
  end

  local basename = function(s)
    -- Nothing a little regex can't fix
    return string.gsub(s, "(.*[/\\])(.*)", "%2")
  end

  -- Current working directory
  local cwd = pane:get_current_working_dir()
  if cwd then
    if type(cwd) == "userdata" then
      -- Wezterm introduced the URL object in 20240127-113634-bbcac864
      cwd = basename(cwd.file_path)
    else
      -- 20230712-072601-f4abf8fd or earlier version
      cwd = basename(cwd)
    end
  else
    cwd = ""
  end

  -- Current command
  local cmd = pane:get_foreground_process_name()
  -- CWD and CMD could be nil (e.g. viewing log using Ctrl-Alt-l)
  cmd = cmd and basename(cmd) or ""

  -- Time
  local time = wezterm.strftime("%H:%M")

  -- Left status (left of the tab line)
  window:set_left_status(wezterm.format({
    { Foreground = { Color = stat_color } },
    { Text = "  " },
    { Text = wezterm.nerdfonts.oct_table .. "  " .. stat },
    { Text = " |" },
  }))

  -- Right status
  window:set_right_status(wezterm.format({
    -- Wezterm has a built-in nerd fonts
    -- https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/wezterm/nerdfonts.html
    { Text = wezterm.nerdfonts.md_folder .. "  " .. cwd },
    { Text = " | " },
    { Foreground = { Color = "#e0af68" } },
    { Text = wezterm.nerdfonts.fa_code .. "  " .. cmd },
    "ResetAttributes",
    { Text = " | " },
    { Text = wezterm.nerdfonts.md_clock .. "  " .. time },
    { Text = "  " },
  }))
end)



return config

Expected Behavior

Ctrl + i provide a Ctrl + i

Logs

No response

Anything else?

No response

[wez]

ctrl-i encodes the same as tab in the standard keyboard encoding, so this doesn't immediately sound like a bug. Most likely, this is a helix issue where it needs to request an adjusted keyboard encoding in order to disambiguate the keys.

Run through: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/troubleshooting.html#debugging-keyboard-related-issues

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