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iPadOS: Ctrl + C doesn't kill running process

See original GitHub issue

ctrl + c keyboard shortcut/combination does not kill running process on iPad.

Details

Browser and browser version: Chrome 87.0.4280.77
OS version: iPadOS 14.5 (18E5164h)
xterm.js version: 4.10.0

Steps to reproduce

Start demo in xterm.js with yarn start
Expose port (to access from iPad) with ngrok: ngrok http 3000
Open ngrok URL on iPad
Start a running process i.e. npm start on a create-react-app
After it starts and is running, try to kill process with ctrl + c on iPad

Expected

Keyboard shortcut kills process.

Actual

Enters new line. See recording:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3806031/110397796-c614c400-802f-11eb-8372-22cb17fc3ee7.MP4

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

Tyriarcommented, Mar 11, 2021

@springhack seems like a bug in Safari as well if it’s returning the key code for enter, but regardless moving to ctrlKey/altKey/shiftKey seems like the right thing to do.

1reaction

Tyriarcommented, Oct 19, 2021

Closing in favor of https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/1862 as that’s about removing the keyCode usage.