kovidgoyal/kitty#7249

TLDR if you install the nightly build the fix is in already

also learned a fun thing from that thread that ga will output the unicode code points of whatever your cursor is over, so if you find additional mappings missing that's how you can find what you need to map

Thanks @gwenwindflower! I'll wait for an official Kitty release. I didn't know about ga either!

cool cool! in the meantime if you ga those missing arrows in whichkey, just be sure to map them to Monaco or Menlo (or whatever your system's default mono font is) not Symbols Nerd Font. For reasons that are a litle beyond my patience for close reading. It does work though can confirm before I installed nightly.

i don't think they could pin it down fully @dpetka2001, i skimmed parts of the thread so i could be wrong -- but i did see it was working on kovid's mac, but not somebody else's, so not OS specific, but i didn't read closely enough to fully understand the root issue, once i saw it was fixed i just trusted kovid understood it and installed nightly. it's something about the fallback fonts available on the system and dingbats messing things up i believe.

The other guy mentioned that he has the same version of OS. Do you also observe this problem on Mac? Or do you have different OS?

In his patch-commit he mentions

if the original fallback font is Zapf Dingbats we get .AppleSystemUIFontMonospaced as the new fallback

So, that leads me to believe that it's Mac specific. That must be why I haven't observed such behavior at all. Very useful thread you linked @gwenwindflower and nice find (even if it was from the thread) about ga. Didn't know about that, so thanks for linking that issue 😄

oh yea sorry @dpetka2001 , i said that wrong -- i meant not OS-specific as in the OS is seemingly not the root issue and it's not universal on all Macs even those running the same OS, but i believe you're absolutely right that it's just a Mac thing, just a specific subset of Macs.