Select does not work on macOS

[davidchisnall]

Describe the bug

Selecting multiple lines doesn't appear to work on macOS using the Apple Terminal. This appears to be to do with the terminal rather than the OS, since sshing to a FreeBSD machine from a Mac exhibits the same problem (but works when sshing from the Windows Terminal).

To Reproduce

1. Run gitui in Apple Terminal
2. Try to select multiple lines.

Context (please complete the following information):

• OS/Distro + Version: Terminal Version 2.13 (447), macOS Ventura: 13.4.1
• GitUI Version: 0.23.0

[davidchisnall]

TERM is set to xterm-color256, if this makes a difference.

[extrawurst]

works for me on the vanilla apple terminal

[davidchisnall]

@extrawurst , what is the value of $TERM for you? I have made very few changes to the default configuration, but the changes I made were 10+ years ago and so I don't know what the defaults are anymore.

[extrawurst]

xterm-256color

[davidchisnall]

Hmm, same as mine. Anything else I can try to help diagnose it? I'm using the version installed from Homebrew, no custom config.

[extrawurst]

I simply cannot reproduce the problem. maybe you can make a screen recording to illustrate the problem

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[Rpinski]

I have the same issue with macOS Terminal. When being in file diff view and trying to multi-select lines with Shift+Down or Shift+Up, the Shift key is ignored and selected line just moves up or down. The behavior is specific to macOS Terminal, since it works perfectly in terminal emulations of VSCode and IntelliJ (on macOS).

I can't remember changing much in Terminal settings besides the colors, so they should be quite the defaults.

[Rpinski]

Ah sorry, I found this related issue and explicitly defining the key strokes in Terminal settings has fixed it:

#959