commands with international keyboard

[DamianRavn]

Summary

I have a danish keyboard
I recently learned that you can click on the "|" symbol as a shortcut for writing :pipe, but nothing happened even though i was in the correct mode. I tried some other shortcuts like "]" and "!". some worked and some didn't. when i rebound the shell_pipe command to "&", it worked.

I downloaded the source code and figured out that the problem was that helix expects "|" to come with no modifiers, while i need to hold down both Control and Alt to make that symbol. to make the symbol "[" i need to hold down Control, Alt and 8.

Not a big deal since i can rebind the commands, the most annoying part was figuring out what was wrong, since insert mode showed the correct symbols.

Reproduction Steps

1. own a Nordic keyboard
2. click "|" or "["
3. notice that nothing happens

Helix log

2024-06-29T18:44:19.314 helix_term::keymap [ERROR] key: KeyEvent {
code: Char(
'|',
),
modifiers: KeyModifiers(
CONTROL | ALT,
),
}

2024-06-29T18:50:05.469 helix_term::keymap [ERROR] key: KeyEvent {
code: Char(
']',
),
modifiers: KeyModifiers(
CONTROL | ALT,
),
}

Platform

Windows

Terminal Emulator

Windows terminal with Powershell

Installation Method

winget

Helix Version

helix 24.3 (2cadec0)