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How do I use Fish's Alt bindings using Kitty on macOS

I acquired a macOS machine for the first time, and I can't figure out how to use commands such as alt+E to open the current command in $EDITOR.

I don't want to remap the ⌘ key to alt system-wide, but I can't figure out how to the remap in either Kitty or Fish.

Why is the fish binding not working in mac os? is a relevant question but the answer there only applies to iTerm2.

Solution

  • Kitty allows treating ⌥ as alt with macos_option_as_alt. So I've put

    macos_option_as_alt yes

    into kitty.conf and started using ⌥ as my alt replacement on macOS.

    It seems that it's discouraged on macOS to reuse ⌘ as a modifier.