Thank you Nicholas, FYI Ghostty fixed their implementation: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/9289
On Monday, October 20, 2025 at 11:44:28 AM UTC+2 Nicholas Marriott wrote: > 5;72 is C-H and 6;72 is C-S-H, so I guess they are including the Shift in > the H (rather than h). I don't know if other terminals do this as well. > > xterm calls it XTMODKEYS, and the property it is changing is called > modifyOtherKeys, see > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html#VT100-Widget-Resources:modifyOtherKeys > . > > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2025, 10:36 Grégory Pakosz, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Nicholas, >> Thanks so much for your answer! >> >> Here's what I get when I use printf '\033[>4;2m' then cat... >> >> *In iTerm2* >> • Press Control + Shift + H → ^[[27;6;72~ >> • Press Control + Shift + L → ^[[27;6;76~ >> • Press Control + C → ^[[27;5;99~ (instead of interrupting cat 🤔) >> >> *In Ghostty* >> • Press Control + Shift + H → ^[[27;5;72~ >> • Press Control + Shift + L → ^[[27;5;76~ >> • Press Control + C → ^C (interrupts cat) >> >> So based on what you said, iTerm2 behaves like Xterm while Ghostty >> doesn't. >> I'll reach out to Ghostty's authors. >> >> Grégory >> >> PS: Is there a name for printf '\033[>4;2m'? >> On Monday, October 20, 2025 at 9:41:28 AM UTC+2 Nicholas Marriott wrote: >> >>> I don't know if one is wrong, IIRC there is a lot of room for >>> interpretation here. >>> >>> Try "printf \033[>4;2m;cat" outside tmux and you can see what they send >>> when you press the keys (you won't be able to use ^C so you will need to >>> close the terminal window). >>> >>> xterm sends \033[27;6;72~ for C-S-h, that is 'H' not 'h'. >>> >>> If the terminals are sending something different you will need to talk >>> to their developers and see what they say. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 at 12:09, Grégory Pakosz <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> In https://groups.google.com/g/tmux-users/c/xL3C1ym79gs/m/CFXf9sk0BAAJ, >>>> I asked what it takes to make Control + Shift bindings work with iTerm2 + >>>> tmux. >>>> >>>> Nicholas answered that I need to bind C-S-H/C-S-L, and not C-S-h/C-S-l. >>>> So in my tmux conf, I have: >>>> >>>> set extended-keys on >>>> bind -r C-S-H swap-window -t -1 \; select-window -t -1 # swap current >>>> window with the previous one >>>> bind -r C-S-L swap-window -t +1 \; select-window -t +1 # swap current >>>> window with the next one >>>> >>>> It works in iTerm2. >>>> Today I noticed that if I want it to work with Ghostty, I need to use >>>> C-S-h and C-S-l: >>>> >>>> set extended-keys on >>>> bind -r C-S-h swap-window -t -1 \; select-window -t -1 # swap current >>>> window with the previous one >>>> bind -r C-S-l swap-window -t +1 \; select-window -t +1 # swap current >>>> window with the next one >>>> >>>> Why is it the case? >>>> Is one of the two terminal emulators wrong? >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "tmux-users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/a6cfdad5-cfce-42ed-8a35-ce49487dadaan%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/a6cfdad5-cfce-42ed-8a35-ce49487dadaan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "tmux-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/9ffa6100-1655-478b-9012-ce9e9649d4a6n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/9ffa6100-1655-478b-9012-ce9e9649d4a6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/82b27212-0fa3-4598-a921-7c63af8f2c7fn%40googlegroups.com.
