Enter key prints ^M in certain situations in iTerm
I am using iTerm2 on a Macbook Pro running MacOS Mojave.
In certain situations, such as when doing a git add -p, pressing return ends up printing ^M instead of performing the action.
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? ^M
That means I am unable to take any action on a hunk as I cannot submit any of the given choices.
I though this could be because of how git handles returns, so I modified the core.autocrlf config but none of its valid values cause any change in this behaviour.
Then when trying other methods I relaized that this problem is visible only when using iTerm and NOT the Terminal app despite using zsh in both.
What configuration should I modify to allow for the return key to behave normally in this case?
macos terminal git zsh iterm2
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
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I am using iTerm2 on a Macbook Pro running MacOS Mojave.
In certain situations, such as when doing a git add -p, pressing return ends up printing ^M instead of performing the action.
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? ^M
That means I am unable to take any action on a hunk as I cannot submit any of the given choices.
I though this could be because of how git handles returns, so I modified the core.autocrlf config but none of its valid values cause any change in this behaviour.
Then when trying other methods I relaized that this problem is visible only when using iTerm and NOT the Terminal app despite using zsh in both.
What configuration should I modify to allow for the return key to behave normally in this case?
macos terminal git zsh iterm2
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
By any chance... do you press accidentallyCTRL+Vbefore hitting theENTERkey? In the standard zsh keybindingsCTRL+V(^V) this is bound toquoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally.^MforENTER,^[forESCand so on.
– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33
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I am using iTerm2 on a Macbook Pro running MacOS Mojave.
In certain situations, such as when doing a git add -p, pressing return ends up printing ^M instead of performing the action.
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? ^M
That means I am unable to take any action on a hunk as I cannot submit any of the given choices.
I though this could be because of how git handles returns, so I modified the core.autocrlf config but none of its valid values cause any change in this behaviour.
Then when trying other methods I relaized that this problem is visible only when using iTerm and NOT the Terminal app despite using zsh in both.
What configuration should I modify to allow for the return key to behave normally in this case?
macos terminal git zsh iterm2
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
I am using iTerm2 on a Macbook Pro running MacOS Mojave.
In certain situations, such as when doing a git add -p, pressing return ends up printing ^M instead of performing the action.
Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,j,J,g,/,e,?]? ^M
That means I am unable to take any action on a hunk as I cannot submit any of the given choices.
I though this could be because of how git handles returns, so I modified the core.autocrlf config but none of its valid values cause any change in this behaviour.
Then when trying other methods I relaized that this problem is visible only when using iTerm and NOT the Terminal app despite using zsh in both.
What configuration should I modify to allow for the return key to behave normally in this case?
macos terminal git zsh iterm2
macos terminal git zsh iterm2
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
edited Feb 7 at 15:15
Sinstein
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
asked Feb 7 at 8:22
SinsteinSinstein
1207
1207
By any chance... do you press accidentallyCTRL+Vbefore hitting theENTERkey? In the standard zsh keybindingsCTRL+V(^V) this is bound toquoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally.^MforENTER,^[forESCand so on.
– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33
add a comment |
By any chance... do you press accidentallyCTRL+Vbefore hitting theENTERkey? In the standard zsh keybindingsCTRL+V(^V) this is bound toquoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally.^MforENTER,^[forESCand so on.
– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33
By any chance... do you press accidentally
CTRL+V before hitting the ENTER key? In the standard zsh keybindings CTRL+V (^V) this is bound to quoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally. ^M for ENTER, ^[ for ESC and so on.– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
By any chance... do you press accidentally
CTRL+V before hitting the ENTER key? In the standard zsh keybindings CTRL+V (^V) this is bound to quoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally. ^M for ENTER, ^[ for ESC and so on.– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33
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By any chance... do you press accidentally
CTRL+Vbefore hitting theENTERkey? In the standard zsh keybindingsCTRL+V(^V) this is bound toquoted-insert, i.e. the next pressed key is inserted literally.^MforENTER,^[forESCand so on.– mpy
Feb 7 at 17:37
@mpy Did not know about that. Tried carefully again, same behaviour observed
– Sinstein
Feb 8 at 10:33