Enter key maps to j

[migsar]

Summary

I tried my best to figure out this on my own, maybe it is mentioned somewhere but I didn't think of the right keywords.

When I enter the editor, in Normal mode, enter key maps to j, in Insert mode it works fine. I have to use shift+enter to execute any command.

I discovered it may be related to Alacritty, since in Tilix it works fine. Nothing is logged, so I am not sure if it is a Helix thing or an Alacritty thing.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. hx
2. Pressed :q to quit the editor.
3. When I press enter, :qj appears in the command bar, I have to press shift+enter to execute the command.

I expected this to happen:

Close the application.

Instead, this happened:

A j character appears after the command I'm typing as part of the command.

Helix log

No problem being logged.

Platform

Linux Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

Terminal Emulator

alacritty 0.10.1 ()

Installation Method

apt package manager

Helix Version

helix 23.10 (f6021dd)

[pascalkuthe]

I can't reproduce this, I also use alacritty and never had any similar issues on a wide variety of distros and helic versions. Perhaphs something is wrong with your setup or alacritty installation. Nothing we can do on our end if it's not reproducible

[migsar]

Thanks for the quick response, it makes sense. Any idea of additional steps or information I can provide to make it reproducible?

[srprca]

Hello!

I am hitting exactly this problem when I run Helix 25.07.1 (a05c151b) inside a fedora (ba3f1ab896c1) or fedora-minimal (22f1cfa48f4b) Podman container from registry.fedoraproject.org under Fedora 43 host, both in Alacritty 0.16.1 and in Konsole 25.12.2.

In my case, even Shift+Enter doesn't help. I tried installing ncurses-term for Terminfo definitions, but this didn't help.

Please let me know if you want me to submit this as a bug instead.

Thank you!

[srprca]

The same issue occurs with a Fedora Silverblue container (quay.io/fedora/fedora-silverblue, bec549b25e4e), which presumably has all packages for proper functioning of terminal applications installed (I am not sure whether this holds for fedora and fedora-minimal, as they are pretty slim). So I guess this might be something about environment variables or terminal settings...?

[srprca]

I tried exporting some environment variables inside the container to have the same values as they do on the host system, and also adding one stty flag that was absent inside the container:

# Later changed to C.UTF-8 because the locale was not present
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export TERM=xterm-256color
export LANG=C.UTF-8
export COLORTERM=truecolor
export XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=pc105
export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us
stty iutf8

None of this helped