From 04e85504bbc505df1a460bf43e751765aded8a2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:02:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: allow Option+Backspace word-delete in input fields (#89)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../src/components/terminal-pane/keyboard-handlers.ts  | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/keyboard-handlers.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/keyboard-handlers.ts
index 8bf4f7b9d0f..7ce428bd33a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/keyboard-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/keyboard-handlers.ts
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ export function useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts({
     }
 
     // Ctrl+Backspace → send \x17 (backward-kill-word) to PTY.
+    // Skip when focus is in an input/textarea so native word-delete still works.
     const onCtrlBackspace = (e: KeyboardEvent): void => {
       if (!e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey || e.altKey || e.shiftKey) {
         return
@@ -147,6 +148,10 @@ export function useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts({
       if (e.key !== 'Backspace') {
         return
       }
+      const tag = (e.target as HTMLElement)?.tagName
+      if (tag === 'INPUT' || tag === 'TEXTAREA') {
+        return
+      }
 
       const manager = managerRef.current
       if (!manager) {
@@ -164,6 +169,7 @@ export function useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts({
     }
 
     // Alt+Backspace → send ESC + DEL (\x1b\x7f, backward-kill-word) to PTY.
+    // Skip when focus is in an input/textarea so native word-delete still works.
     const onAltBackspace = (e: KeyboardEvent): void => {
       if (!e.altKey || e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey || e.shiftKey) {
         return
@@ -171,6 +177,10 @@ export function useTerminalKeyboardShortcuts({
       if (e.key !== 'Backspace') {
         return
       }
+      const tag = (e.target as HTMLElement)?.tagName
+      if (tag === 'INPUT' || tag === 'TEXTAREA') {
+        return
+      }
 
       const manager = managerRef.current
       if (!manager) {