zsh (z shell) numpad/numlock doesn't work

Question

I just upgraded to zsh/oh-my-zsh. Almost immediately I notice on my machine that the 10-digit numpad is not working. It was working in bash and fish shell.

Oddly, if I hold down the fn/function key it acts like numlock and works, but it doesn't "lock" and I would have to keep holding down fn to type out the numbers.

Any ideas out there?

score 111 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '14 at 21:46

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The numpad key do not send the same key symbols as the 'normal' number key in the top row. For example: The numpad-1-key sends KP_1 while the 1-key just sends 1.

Some terminals automatically remap the numpad key to send the same codes to the shell. Also, some shells (for example bash) just interprete the numpad keys like their equivalents in the main block.

zsh does not do the mapping automatically, but you can use bindkey to do the mapping on your own. I have the following in my ~/.zshrc to get the keypad working:

# Keypad
# 0 . Enter
bindkey -s "^[Op" "0"
bindkey -s "^[Ol" "."
bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"
# 1 2 3
bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1"
bindkey -s "^[Or" "2"
bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"
# 4 5 6
bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4"
bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5"
bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"
# 7 8 9
bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7"
bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8"
bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"
# + -  * /
bindkey -s "^[Ok" "+"
bindkey -s "^[Om" "-"
bindkey -s "^[Oj" "*"
bindkey -s "^[Oo" "/"

bindkey -s in-string out-string binds in-string to out-string. If in-string is typed out-string is pushed back and treated as input.

The actual codes (for example ^[Oq) may be different on your system. You can press Ctrl+v followed by the key in question to get the code for your terminal.

answered Apr 15 '14 at 21:46

Adaephon

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Thank you sir, this worked perfectly for me and the Ctrl + v tip is great! – BradGreens Apr 16 '14 at 14:12
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Thanks, this was really useful but some keys were missing for the Apple USB keyboard. This is the key binding for Apple Keyboard: # Keypad
0 . Enter

bindkey -s "^[Op" "0" bindkey -s "^[On" "." bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"

1 2 3

bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1" bindkey -s "^[Or" "2" bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"

4 5 6

bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4" bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5" bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"

7 8 9

bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7" bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8" bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"

+ - * /

bindkey -s "^[Ok" "+" bindkey -s "^[Om" "-" bindkey -s "^[Oj" "*" bindkey -s "^[Oo" "/" bindkey -s "^[OX" "="
– Bogdan Constantinescu May 08 '14 at 16:20
The manual for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Key-Binding.html#Key-Binding – krowe Aug 22 '14 at 00:53
and this is good too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18042685/list-of-zsh-bindkey-commands – krowe Aug 22 '14 at 00:56
https://github.com/krowe/kshrc-k800-keybindings Made this based off this answer. – krowe Aug 22 '14 at 12:27
I'd love to upvote this about 100 times. – signus Jun 13 '15 at 21:15

score 23 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 30 '19 at 13:27

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To complete the answer that @adaephon gave, the following are the correct bindings for the Apple USB keyboard (A1243). These need to be added to ~/.zshrc.

# Fix numeric keypad
# 0 . Enter
bindkey -s "^[Op" "0"
bindkey -s "^[On" "."
bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"
# 1 2 3
bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1"
bindkey -s "^[Or" "2"
bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"
# 4 5 6
bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4"
bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5"
bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"
# 7 8 9
bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7"
bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8"
bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"
# + -  * / =
bindkey -s "^[Ol" "+"
bindkey -s "^[Om" "-"
bindkey -s "^[Oj" "*"
bindkey -s "^[Oo" "/"
bindkey -s "^[OX" "="

edited Mar 30 '19 at 13:27

Melebius

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answered Oct 23 '14 at 22:10

Robin Daugherty

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Robin, could you expand your answer to include where OP should input this information to correct their problem? – music2myear Oct 23 '14 at 22:25
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This worked for me except + (had to use bindkey -s "^[Ok" "+") and = (missing bindkey -s "^[OX" "=") – dain Jan 30 '15 at 10:36

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 14 '21 at 09:17

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On MacOS Catalina with A1843 Apple Keyboard:

I set the Terminal configuration to ansi. It works with all the keys.

No keybindings needed.

edited Jul 14 '21 at 09:17

Charlie

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answered Apr 13 '21 at 13:56

pegasuspect

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This worked great! I added an iTerm screenshot. – Charlie Jul 13 '21 at 23:36
Good that you have added iTerm too, worked for me as well, no binding was needed. – scarface_90 Sep 28 '21 at 18:41

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 22 '15 at 22:44

On my Mac OSX El Capitan, the period key is ^[0n instead of ^[01. Also I have a Logitech wireless keyboard for the Mac and it has an = sign on the numpad too. My final mapping looks like below:

# Keypad
# 0 . Enter
bindkey -s "^[Op" "0"
bindkey -s "^[On" "."
bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"
# 1 2 3
bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1"
bindkey -s "^[Or" "2"
bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"
# 4 5 6
bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4"
bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5"
bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"
# 7 8 9
bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7"
bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8"
bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"
# + -  * / =
bindkey -s "^[Ok" "+"
bindkey -s "^[Om" "-"
bindkey -s "^[Oj" "*"
bindkey -s "^[Oo" "/"
bindkey -s "^[OX" "="

The solution others proposed works correctly however.

Daniel Bermudez · Answer 5 · 2015-05-07T15:33:27.660

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Also complementing answer from @adaephon. Here is what I had to use for my Dell Desktop, might be of help. Just add it in your .zshrc file.

(BTW dont add bindings from all answers, you should just have one binding per key)

# Keypad
# 0 . Enter
bindkey -s "^[Op" "0"
bindkey -s "^[On" "."
bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"
# 1 2 3
bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1"
bindkey -s "^[Or" "2"
bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"
# 4 5 6
bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4"
bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5"
bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"
# 7 8 9
bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7"
bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8"
bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"
# + -  * /
bindkey -s "^[OQ" "/"
bindkey -s "^[OR" "*"
bindkey -s "^[OS" "-"
bindkey -s "^[Ol" "+"
#END Keypad

edited May 07 '15 at 15:33

answered Apr 29 '15 at 16:57

Daniel Bermudez

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Welcome to Super User! Could you please edit your answer to include a little guidance about what this is and how/where to use it? – Excellll Apr 29 '15 at 18:28
This solution worked for me for zsh with windows keypad (PUTTY, with Terminal > Keyboard > Initial state of numeric pad > Normal) – Ivan Castellanos Apr 04 '17 at 23:46

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 10:53

If you use Kitty to access a linux server on SSH and that the keypad is working fine with Bash but not with ZSH, you may try adding the following in your ~/.zshrc config file:

# Keypad
# 0 . Enter
bindkey -s "^[Op" "0"
bindkey -s "^[On" "."
bindkey -s "^[OM" "^M"
# 1 2 3
bindkey -s "^[Oq" "1"
bindkey -s "^[Or" "2"
bindkey -s "^[Os" "3"
# 4 5 6
bindkey -s "^[Ot" "4"
bindkey -s "^[Ou" "5"
bindkey -s "^[Ov" "6"
# 7 8 9
bindkey -s "^[Ow" "7"
bindkey -s "^[Ox" "8"
bindkey -s "^[Oy" "9"
# + -  * /
bindkey -s "^[Ol" "+"
bindkey -s "^[OS" "-"
bindkey -s "^[OR" "*"
bindkey -s "^[OQ" "/"

Save. Logout and login again to reload the ZSH config, or alternatively you can type the following in your terminal:

. ~/.zshrc

The keypad should now work as expected!

This duplicates another answer and adds no new content. Please don't post an answer unless you actually have something new to contribute. — DavidPostill, Dec 21 '16 at 15:03
Let me disagree. Only this answer has similar codes : http://superuser.com/a/907695/351420
And I explain the context and how to use those codes, imho better than this answer. — Gabriel Hautclocq, Jan 04 '17 at 09:53

zsh (z shell) numpad/numlock doesn't work

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