SUMMARY When a text field is selected in macOS, holding option (or alt) and pressing the left or right arrow key moves the cursor word-by-word. This does not work in Kate. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open or write a file with multiple words. 2. Hold option/alt and press the left or right arrow key. OBSERVED RESULT The text cursor does not move. EXPECTED RESULT The text cursor moves word-by-word. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Kate: 25.08.2 KDE Frameworks: 6.19.0 Qt: Using 6.9.2 and built against 6.9.2 macOS Tahoe (26.1) Build ABI: arm64-little_endian-lp64 Kernel: darwin 25.1.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION N/A
What do you mean by text field? Can you record a video? Macos shortcuts were fixed after https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499197 , word movement should now be alt+left/right
Here is a video https://nextcloud.macver.org/s/fSPKdfriHKnmskQ
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