Option-as-Meta had no effect for anyone typing with a CJK input source.
The whole setting was dead for them: with Pinyin selected, macOS reports
Option chords as printable text (Option+B composes the special
character), so gpui routed them to the IME before the key handler ran.
The IME committed the composed character and swallowed the event --
on_key_down never ran, and reshape_option_keystroke never got a say.
Switching to ABC made it work again, which is why this looked
intermittent. Verified on the wire: with Pinyin active Option+F/Option+B
put c692 / e288ab on the PTY where ESC f / ESC b belong.
The routing decision lives in gpui's macOS backend and is asked once per
view, with no keystroke in hand, so it could not answer "IME for text,
but not for this chord". gpui now comes from our fork, whose one commit
passes the keystroke to prefers_ime_for_printable_keys; the default
implementation ignores it, so no existing handler changes behavior. The
terminal answers per key: an Option chord with the setting on stays on
the dispatch path, everything else still prefers the IME.
Gated on the setting deliberately. With Option-as-Meta off the chord is
text input and the IME is the right owner -- it is what makes dead keys
(Option+E then E -> e-acute) compose at all.
The fork is wired in with [patch] on the source rather than by editing
the gpui pins, because gpui-component declares its own gpui from the
upstream URL and a pin swap would put two incompatible copies of gpui in
the tree. Fetching a repo that size needs the git CLI; cargo's built-in
libgit2 transfer times out partway through.
Fixes#177
tty7 is split into two Rust processes: a persistent daemon that owns the
shells and a GPU-rendered client that talks to it over a local socket.
Because the shells live in the daemon, quitting and reopening the app
leaves the session intact — detach and reattach, no tmux required.
- Persistent sessions — the daemon holds the PTYs and child processes, so
closing a window or swapping in a new build never takes a shell down.
- Performance — an 11 MB `cat` completes in 95 ms and DOOM-fire renders at
888 fps; the daemon drains the PTY at device speed off the render path.
- Shell-aware — new tabs and splits open in the current working directory;
zsh, bash, fish, and PowerShell are set up automatically.
- Enhanced prompt — inline completion, syntax highlighting, history, and
in-terminal search, with rich flag/subcommand signatures for common tools.
- Tabs, resizable splits, a command palette, click-to-open links, desktop
notifications, eight themes, and CJK/IME input.
Native builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Built on Zed's gpui and Alacritty's VT core.
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