Keybinding "/" not starting search in "Vi" mode for Spanish keyboard
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Hi there 👋
So I've had to download the source code to find out what's happening but now I don't know how to proceed to fix it (in the code) so I'm asking here.
Let me first explain what happens. In Spanish keyboards the / is above number 7 so it you input it by pressing Shift+7.
However, for some reason, the event arrives to Alacritty as Shift+/ making the default key binding fail. I tried (before downloading the code) to map / and Shift+7 to SearchForward in the alacritty.toml but it didn't work. Now we know why 😅 .
I've worked around the issue adding this to the alacritty.toml file:
[keyboard]
bindings = [
{key = "/", mods="Shift", mode="Vi", action = "SearchForward" },
]
However I would like to know what would be the best strategy to fix this in the source code and send a PR. In particular:
- Is this a expected behaviour (getting
Shift+/instead of/)? - Should it be
/alone instead orShift+7? - Should it be fixed in Alacritty or is it a bug from a dependency you are using?
Mind that I've tested the problem in Fedora and Arch and both systems were affected.
Thanks in advance, Ivan