Ctrl key disabled in iTerm.app

Question

I'm trying to use the new iTerm application on my Mac Snow Leopard, but my Ctrl seems completely dead (as in immunity, since nothing happens when I type Ctrl + a except for the output of 'a'), and I did not find anything useful in search time. The trailing match was https://stackoverflow.com/a/167269/2126322 but the everything in Terminal.app works as it should .

And even stranger - I can Ctrl + z myself from applications, but I can not save files to Emacs ( Cx Cs ) or any other keyboard shortcuts that use the Ctrl shortcut. And this is not local, since Ctrl is also broken on my iMac, as well as on other unix computers on which I switched to iTerm. I tried both in bash and zsh.

I tried to delete all files regarding iTerm.app in my ~/Library/Application Support , and I tried the latest version (currently 13 hours) of iTerm, which I could rely on, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I suggest checking this post to see if the ctrl key is enabled in your settings

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/52041/how-to-press-control-key-on-mac

You tried to configure key bindings for this terminal emulator, as stated in the iTerm wiki:

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/Keybindings

finally try set -o emacs or set -o vi ?

If it works, set it to ~ / .bashrc to start it when you log in.

Answer 2

This seems to be an iTerm bug.

You can get around this by creating a key mapping in your profile settings. Add a mapping for ^x so that it 0x18 (which is the encoded form ctrl + x).