## Remap Ctrl+C in Kitty terminal
<!-- published:  2018_10_01 -->

[Kitty terminal](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) is awesome, and you should definitely try it.

Only thing I found tricky is how to bind termination of the running process (sending SIGINT on Ctrl+C) to a different key combination.

I like when all applications have consistent hotkeys. And different meaning of the most commonly used hotkey (copy) in all terminals always bothers me. I don't care about "history" and "traditions", switching your brain depending on currently open window is just inconvinient. So I use `ctrl+c` to copy and `ctrl+shift+c` for process interruption.

To fix that, add to [kitty.conf](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html):

    map ctrl+c  copy_to_clipboard
    map ctrl+v  paste_from_clipboard
    map ctrl+shift+c send_text all \x03 # SIGINT

Note that there is also [copy_or_interrupt](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html#shortcut-kitty.Copy-to-clipboard) but for me it is even more inconsistent.

Take look at [my config](https://github.com/dmi3/bin/blob/master/config/kitty/kitty.conf) for more useful options.

**PS:** And by the way, if you want to get nice color scheme for Kitty, you could use [Terminal Color Scheme Designer](https://terminal.sexy/), export to `Termite` and replace `=` with ` `.

🏷️Cli