iTerm2 closing curly brace not working

Question

in the last weeks I had the problem that in iTerm2 the closing curly brace is not working anymore. It works in all other applications (including Terminal), but iTerm2 is not showing the curly brace. The opening curly brace works.

I have got a German keyboard, so it should be ALT+9

I uninstalled the shell integration, because I thought this problem occurs since the installation of the integration, but no success so far.

Any ideas how to fix this issue?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '20 at 12:22

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For me it turns out the right ALT key works but not the left and it's because the left ALT key had a different setting.

You can change this by going to Preferences -> Profiles -> Keys and changing from Esc+ to Normal

answered Feb 18 '20 at 12:22

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 11:04

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I had the same issue using iTerm2 3.1.6 and a German keyboard layout.

In my case, it was caused by the option To switch split planes: being set to ⌥ Number). This option can be found in Preferences > Keys > Navigation Shortcuts.

Any other setting for this option works as a workaround for the issue.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 11:04

stefan-girlich

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I spent a bit of time trying to understand the problem on my french keyboard layout, and that was it! Thank you – Gilles Gregoire Sep 10 '18 at 07:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '18 at 23:59

I have this problem, and have been experiencing the same thing since I started using iterm/zsh in October 2016. It happens on both my work laptop and on my own personal laptop (I have almost exactly the same setup for both). This is only a problem in iterm - the regular mac OS terminal works just fine.

I'm currently using iterm build 3.1.5. and also have a German keyboard layout.

It's annoying, but I recently found out that CTRL + ALT + 9 does the job.

I would be interested to know of a proper fix.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '16 at 15:42

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This only seemed to be an issue in the test releases. The stable release doesn't have this issue

answered Jun 21 '16 at 15:42

lehnerchristian

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I have the same problem with Build 3.0.10 – Seybsen Oct 18 '16 at 12:06

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 31 '18 at 09:41

It's not a very nice workaround, but I only got it to work by adding the curly braces as shortcuts:

Go to Preferences → Keys → Key Mappings
Make sure there are no conflicting mappings
Add two new key mappings for opening/closing curly braces: The shortcut is the key combination for getting the braces, the action is "Send text", and the value is the curly brace

iTerm2 closing curly brace not working

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