neovide: fails to interprets in Macos. I set `neovide_input_macos_alt_is_meta `

In Macos, I set vim.g.neovide_input_macos_alt_is_meta = true, keys works fine except <A-n>.

I don’t know if someone can reproduce it. But other keys like <A-m> and <A-p> are ok.

To Reproduce <A-n> can not be matched.

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OS: 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a)
Neovide Version 0.10.4
Neovim Version 0.9.0

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State: open
Created a year ago
Comments: 30 (17 by maintainers)

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If I remember correctly, the dead keys are delivered using the IME system on the mac. So it’s likely that the ime system handles it completely, and therefore nothing is delivered to Neovide.

You can try disabling IME https://neovide.dev/configuration.html#ime vim.g.neovide_input_ime = false

fredizzimo on Sep 25, 2023

I suggest adding --clean to the command as well so, otherwise it may in some cases load existing plugins. target/debug/neovide -- --clean -u c.lua

fredizzimo on Sep 25, 2023

What’s interesting is that <m-n> seems to swallow the next key mapping, so if I do <m-n><m-m> there is no output. same with <m-n><m-o>. <m-m><m-o> works as expected, printing both. Even <m-n>a does not put me in insert mode, but … <m-n>i does! Weird.

I’m on a UK keyboard map here

Yep, the Mac UK keyboard layout has option-n as a “dead key”; it temporarily types a ~, which you can follow up with e.g. a regular “n”, to produce ñ. option-m though produces a single character, µ, so not a dead key.

mgax on Sep 25, 2023