# Shift-space doesn't send space character

**URL:** <https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shift-space-doesnt-send-space-character/2004>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 5, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shift-space-doesnt-send-space-character/2004 "2022-03-05T12:40:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![mel](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/mel/32/1059_2.png) [@mel](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/mel)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shift-space-doesnt-send-space-character/2004/1 "2022-03-05T12:40:05Z")

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I’ve just recently setup a new laptop and shift+space doesn’t send a space character. I’m on Apple (M1), using iTerm, and I built `kak` from source. Any pointers?

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**Author:** ![Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/screwtapello/32/12_2.png) [@Screwtapello](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/Screwtapello)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shift-space-doesnt-send-space-character/2004/2 "2022-03-05T19:02:54Z")

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iTerm supports a new protocol that allows Kakoune to map more keystrokes than the traditional terminal keyboard protocol allows. In particular, it allows Kakoune to distinguish `<space>` and `<s-space>`. Unfortunately, as a result `<s-space>` doesn’t produce the same result as `<space>`.

If your Kakoune is newer than 2021-12-11, you should be able to `map global insert <s-space> <space>` (and what ever other modes you want to make that mapping in).

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**Author:** ![krobelus](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/krobelus/32/616_2.png) [@krobelus](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/krobelus)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/shift-space-doesnt-send-space-character/2004/3 "2022-03-26T08:16:28Z")

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I’ve suggested a fix in [Make Shift+Space insert a space in insert mode by krobelus · Pull Request #4575 · mawww/kakoune · GitHub](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/4575)