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Is there a way to map Command to Control?

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#1,633 opened on Feb 26, 2018

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Description

It'd be great if there was a way to map Command to Control. This would be outside of the Neovim instance, in Electron. Not sure if Electron supports it. Neovim would see it as if we pressed Control, and would not know about this setting.

In iTerm, there's an option to map Command to Control, and Bash will see Control when we're actually pressing Command.

Is this possible?

In macOS, I have Caplock Key mapps to Command, which works great with iTerm (as Control). Would be great to have this in Oni!

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Research direction
Investigate Electron's globalShortcut or accelerators to intercept the Command key and emulate Control key events. Check if Electron's 'before input event' can modify the event. Consider platform specific handling for macOS.
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typescriptelectron
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desktop
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