Could web-console support meta keys?

[olivierlacan]

It's common in terminals to use a meta key (like alt/option) to modify other key inputs.

The most useful incarnation is holding alt/option when pressing arrow keys in order to easily jump to the previous or next word boundary when editing a long command.

Currently web-console ignores meta keys or modifiers when arrow keys are pressed.

It seems like the behavior defined here: https://github.com/olivierlacan/web-console/blob/891c363b60eee7c27ea4755e43ca2b54a4fbec9f/lib/web_console/templates/console.js.erb#L742-L753

Obviously looking at it quickly it seems like modifier keys could be handled to determine _caretPos. Do you think that's a good idea? Should I pursue it?

[gsamokovarov]

Please do! Any UX improvement here is greatly appreciated. The whole frontend needs a refresh but I have been ignoring it for way too long now.

[dubaaron]

+1 to this ... it's hard to edit previously entered commands due to this; Home/End keys (on keyboards that have them) also don't seem to work.

Unless I'm missing some other way this can be done?

Have you started any work on this? If not, I might be willing to do this also, with some pointing in the right direction.