MacOS – How to send an arrow key in iTerm2

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Is it possible to send an arrow key in iTerm2? I've been able to send almost any other character, by using either an escape character, such as \<C-a> or entering in the character directly, such as ‰, but I haven't been able to figure out (or find on Google) how to send one of the arrow keys. For example, I would like to configure pressing

  • ⌘↑

to send a tmux command of:

  • ctrla↑ (ctrl-a being by prefix)

In other words, pressing cmd-up would navigate to the pane above the current one. How would I do this in iTerm2? That is, what "action" should I select (send hex codes? send text? send text with vim escape chars?) and text/code should I send?

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Best Answer

If you're trying to send an ↑ to the terminal, I've been able to accomplish this using the Send Text with "vim" Special Chars option and then using the escape sequence \u000d[A. For example, I'm using it to clear the console and repeat the last command, so the full sequence I'm sending is:

clear\u000d\u001b[A\u001b[A\u000d

This first writes clear to the console and then submits with Enter as \u000d. Then, ↑ is sent twice to get the command submitted before the last clear command, and Enter is sent again to submit the retrieved command.

Hope this helps you. Cheers!

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