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by rauanm 540 days ago
I tried to install and play around with it, it's really nice.

Took a bit of tinkering to set a theme and my favourite Pragmata Pro, but what ultimately annoys me is the lack of 'turnkey' selecting for text.

When I run `Cmd + A`, I want my terminal to make a full text selection of an entered command, not of the screen content. Or when I run `Option + Shift + Arrow left/right`, I want to select words from an entered command, not to type '4D;4C;4D;4C'.

I'm not a vimer or emacser, I want to have normal macos experience. For this reason alone I thought it's too early to switch and Warp is still great for me.

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Cmd+A to select the entered command isn't standard.

You could try:

- Ctrl+A: Move to the beginning of the line.

- Ctrl+E: Move to the end of the line.

- Ctrl+K: Cut the command from the cursor position to the end.

- Ctrl+U: Cut the command from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

- Ctrl+Y: Paste the text back.

This should work in all terminals.

You're just forcing me to be a vimer at this point. :)

By normal macos experience I mean key bindings for regular text fields, not regular terminal (whatever they're supposed to be). Afaik, Warp was the first one ever to treat terminal input as a regular text field input.

Ctrl+W: delete last word
Good ideas (and possible in Wezterm if shell marks the semantic zones, not sure whether possible if not), though not really a normal macos experience given mac's default terminal doesn't select of an entered command on Cmd+A
But `ghostty +list-themes` is damn impressive.