We all love the fast software. Ghostty is crazy fast.

What I use with my macos keyboard comes from Emacs. Namely, Cmd+ instead of Control+ for navigation in shell. Jump to a beginning of line, +a, to the end of line +e.

Why?

1. Because my macOS keyboard doesn’t have TWO Ctrl keys on both sides.
2. Try to compare ctrl-a vs cmd-a yourself 😀

Here is an example of a config extracted from this discussion.

keybind = cmd+a=text:\x01
keybind = cmd+b=text:\x02
keybind = cmd+c=text:\x03
keybind = cmd+d=text:\x04
keybind = cmd+e=text:\x05
keybind = cmd+f=text:\x06
keybind = cmd+g=text:\x07
keybind = cmd+h=text:\x08
keybind = cmd+i=text:\x09
keybind = cmd+j=text:\x0A
keybind = cmd+k=text:\x0B
keybind = cmd+l=text:\x0C
keybind = cmd+m=text:\x0D
keybind = cmd+n=text:\x0E
keybind = cmd+o=text:\x0F
keybind = cmd+p=text:\x10
keybind = cmd+q=text:\x11
keybind = cmd+r=text:\x12
keybind = cmd+s=text:\x13
# Cmd+t creates a new tab in ghostty
# keybind = cmd+t=text:\x14
keybind = cmd+u=text:\x15
# I'm using cmd+y with paste from macos
# keybind = cmd+v=text:\x16
keybind = cmd+w=text:\x17
keybind = cmd+x=text:\x18
keybind = cmd+y=text:\x19
keybind = cmd+z=text:\x1A
theme = AtomOneLight

It’s much better than using Karabiner Elements, as it doesn’t hijack your Cmd+Tab combination from OS.