terminal: Dvorak: Ctrl+] may not work correctly over the PTY

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.592]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 0.9.433.0
WSL: Linux yacht 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #476-Microsoft Fri Nov 01 16:53:00 PST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jun 07 2019 15:35:43)

Steps to reproduce

Start a Linux shell in Terminal using the default profile (»Ubuntu«). Open vi and type »:help help«. This opens a help window. Within the help window, move the cursor over one of the green words, such as »helplang« and press Ctrl-].

Expected behavior

The help window should update to show the help text for »helplang«. The Ctrl-] shortcut is used in vi to navigate to »tags« – these can be program code (created using ctags) or hyperlinks in the help system.

Actual behavior

The shortcut is ignored. Nothing happens. Unbinding ctrl+] does not help. There does not appear to be a way to navigate to tags in vi in Terminal.

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About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 27 (16 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Huh! That makes sense.

Thanks again – this has been enlightening (and perhaps is worthy of a feature request to the input folks to improve the inbox Dvorak layout … I’ll follow up with that 😄)

DHowett-MSFT on Apr 28, 2020