option key misbehaves with zellij

[pdeva]

this happens regardless of whether i set macos-option-as-alt to either true or false.

i am on macos.

i use ghostty to ssh into a linux box and run zellij there.

on all other terminals, i am able to use uses option+ left/right arrow key to navigate between zellij panes.

on ghostty it doesnt work.

[qwerasd205]

On macOS we by default bind alt+left to esc:b and alt+right to esc:f since a lot of macOS users expect this behavior (despite it being non-standard) because Terminal.app does it. You can unbind them with keybind = alt+left=unbind and keybind = alt+right=unbind, then it may work.

[pdeva]

works with this!

[dj95]

Can also confirm, that this fixes the issue for me.

[currenthandle]

#3207 (reply in thread)

[mitchellh]

If you're over SSH, this can also be a terminfo issue: https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo

[qballer]

These are my current configuration

keybind = alt+left=unbind
keybind = alt+right=unbind
macos-option-as-alt = true

And it doesn't seem to solve the issue, any ideas on whats the issue here?

[currenthandle]

In my situation I'm not using zelij. I am on a mac, seeing the issue in and outside of tmux.

this fixed it for me:

keybind = alt+left=unbind
keybind = alt+right=unbind

with or without

macos-option-as-alt = true

should I keep

macos-option-as-alt = true

for some reason?

[ben-albrecht]

Has anyone been able to get alt-f working within tmux in ghostty on macos? I can only get this working in iterm2 (see this post).

[pluiedev]

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