OPTION/CMD + ARROW LEFT/RIGHT or BACKSPACE not working as intended when Warp is in long-running command mode

[jonashojer]

Describe the bug

Whenever I elevate my rights to root through SSH I cannot use either the OPTION or CMD with ARROW LEFT/RIGHT or  to either skip the whole word, skip to the end/start of the line or deleting the next/previous word or the whole line.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce:

1. SSH to a RHEL based server(havn't tested on anything else) as normal user(needs wheel permissions)
2. Execute sudo su - to elevate to root
3. Write something like "asdf qwerty"
4. Try to use 'CMD+ARROW-LEFT'
5. You can also try to 'CMD+BACKSPACE'
6. Also you can try to 'OPTION+ARROW-LEFT'
7. You could also move the cursor to the start of the line and do the commands with ARROW-RIGHT or DELETEKEY

Expected behaviour

4. When having the cursor at the end of the line this should skip both words and get back to the start of the line
5. When having the cursor at the end of the line this should delete the whole line
6. When having the cursor at the end of the line this move the cursor to the first letter in the second word(in my example it should move the cursor in front of q)

Screenshots

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Operating System

MacOS

OS Version

12.2.1

Additional context

No response

[quinnj]

I also see this behavior when starting the Julia REPL; pushing CMD + ARROW_LEFT or right seem to just insert a \t or something?

[quinnj]

In fact, here's the exact unicode point that gets inserted:

julia> x = ""
"\uf703"

[zheng]

These shortcuts work when the Warp input area is showing.

When you're in a REPL or a subshell, you're interacting directly with the shell which doesn't have Warp's editor functionality.

Please upvote #64!

[zheng]

I am closing this because this is not a bug, and it's actually what the terminal experience is outside of Warp. In order to get the desired behavior, we want to allow support for subshells to also be bootstrapped with Warp's input editor. Please subscribe to #64.

[jonashojer]

I am not sure why this is intended. Both the built-in Terminal app and iTerm2 do not behave like this and I could for sure find other terminal apps which do the same.

[zheng]

@jonashojer sorry about that - I was mistaken about the shell behavior without the warp input editor. reopening this!

[quinnj]

I brought this up w/ some friends and they mentioned this iTerm2 setting that is perhaps relevant

i.e. it also sends the correct escape sequence that subshells/repls are expecting.

[Ciebiada]

What's the status of this? Any workarounds? Until we get the subshell I would like to at least be able to use the basic keyboard shortcuts the same way I do in other terminals

[jonashojer]

Any status on this?

[yusufdonmez]

I am connecting "gcloud compute ssh"
and can not move next/previous word in WARP

normally mac os terminal and connected gcloud bash allow me to go next word by "option+right arrow"
in warp it doesnt work for "gcloud sql connect", too

[ops-jaeha]

Has this issue not been resolved yet?