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That's what `modifyOtherKeys` mode is for, introduced by xterm a couple decades ago. It tells the terminal to report modified keys with a control sequence that explicitly specifies the base key and modifiers.

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Please, dear Lord, no. No. Do not do this.

Use something with a sane key event handling system. List here: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

(My particular use that drove me down this rabbit hole was using "Shift" for selection. You CANNOT DO THIS with "standard" terminals as you cannot detect when shift gets pressed or released without also pressing another key.)

That's a great resource, TIL ty.

Kitty is really overstating the problem here, and introducing significant problems of its own.

What problems is it introducing?

Please explain to me how to do what I asked--"selection while holding shift"--with any terminal other than one that supports the kitty protocol.

I'll wait ...

(It's this kind of basic stuff that doesn't work that makes me absolutely laugh my ass off when people claim that "AI will take all the programming jobs".)

I have a lot of respect for Kitty's uncompromisingly opinionated design, standing apart from the rest (for better or worse). IME the notorious issue with tapping ESC is a major bummer, and Kitty is right not to settle for the status quo -- with impressively wide support too!

I've been trying to understand this problem for years (https://superuser.com/questions/555886/why-cant-i-highlight-...). It made me feel like a crazy person, since it seems that almost nobody even understands that something is wrong here.

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