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@LeonMueller-OneAndOnly LeonMueller-OneAndOnly commented Jan 19, 2026

Summary

Adds support for Alt+Backspace (and Option+Backspace on macOS) to delete whole words in the Dialog Select component.

Fixes #9381.

Changes

  • Updated keyboard event handling in DialogSelect to recognize Alt+Backspace (via evt.option) as a word deletion command.

How / where it was tested

I have tested that this issue is present and fixed by this PR on the following terminals:

  • Ghostty
  • VSCode built-int

My operating system is macOS Sequoia

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@LeonMueller-OneAndOnly LeonMueller-OneAndOnly changed the title fix: Add Alt+Backspace support to Dialog Select fix(TUI): Add Alt+Backspace support to Dialog Select Jan 19, 2026
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Missing Alt+Backspace support in Dialog Select

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