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I thought there used to be a way with Zsh on the OSX where you could view a live print out of keys to bind event ids. Something like showkey -a where it’ll print out the bind key combo you just pressed. I tried the showkey brew package but that didn’t seem to work.
I’m trying to fix my alt+left&right arrow word jumping sequence when using a windows keyboard with my Mac. I can’t find the correct character for alt though.
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bindkey, a zle builtin, will show you the current bindings, discussed in detail in man zshzle. It allows selection between a number of builtins; emacs, numerous flavours of vi.
xev will show codes for keypresses as they happen, though it’s quite basic and probably won’t show combinations as you might be expecting. IIRC this may be part of the XQuartz package. https://www.xquartz.org
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