Add docs for performable

src/Surface.zig

@@ -1941,16 +1941,24 @@ fn maybeHandleBinding(
         return .closed;
     }
 
-    // If we have the performable flag and the
+    // If we have the performable flag and the action was not performed,
-    // action was not performed do nothing at all
+    // then we act as though a binding didn't exist.
     if (leaf.flags.performable and !performed) {
+        // If we're in a sequence, we treat this as if we pressed a key
+        // that doesn't exist in the sequence. Reset our sequence and flush
+        // any queued events.
+        if (self.keyboard.bindings != null) {
+            self.keyboard.bindings = null;
+            self.endKeySequence(.flush, .retain);
+        }
+
         return null;
     }
 
     // If we consume this event, then we are done. If we don't consume
     // it, we processed the action but we still want to process our
     // encodings, too.
-    if (consumed) {
+    if (performed and consumed) {
         // If we had queued events, we deinit them since we consumed
         self.endKeySequence(.drop, .retain);
 

src/config/Config.zig

@@ -907,6 +907,15 @@ class: ?[:0]const u8 = null,
 ///     Since they are not associated with a specific terminal surface,
 ///     they're never encoded.
 ///
+///   * `performable:` - Only consume the input if the action is able to be
+///     performed. For example, the `copy_to_clipboard` action will only
+///     consume the input if there is a selection to copy. If there is no
+///     selection, Ghostty behaves as if the keybind was not set. This has
+///     no effect with `global:` or `all:`-prefixed keybinds. For key
+///     sequences, this will reset the sequence if the action is not
+///     performable (acting identically to not having a keybind set at
+///     all).
+///
 /// Keybind triggers are not unique per prefix combination. For example,
 /// `ctrl+a` and `global:ctrl+a` are not two separate keybinds. The keybind
 /// set later will overwrite the keybind set earlier. In this case, the

src/input/Binding.zig

@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ pub const Flags = packed struct {
     /// See the keybind config documentation for more information.
     global: bool = false,
 
-    /// True if this binding can be performed then the action is
+    /// True if this binding should only be triggered if the action can be
-    /// triggered otherwise it acts as if it doesn't exist.
+    /// performed. If the action can't be performed then the binding acts as
+    /// if it doesn't exist.
     performable: bool = false,
 };
 
@@ -1654,6 +1655,16 @@ test "parse: triggers" {
         .flags = .{ .consumed = false },
     }, try parseSingle("unconsumed:physical:a+shift=ignore"));
 
+    // performable keys
+    try testing.expectEqual(Binding{
+        .trigger = .{
+            .mods = .{ .shift = true },
+            .key = .{ .translated = .a },
+        },
+        .action = .{ .ignore = {} },
+        .flags = .{ .performable = true },
+    }, try parseSingle("performable:shift+a=ignore"));
+
     // invalid key
     try testing.expectError(Error.InvalidFormat, parseSingle("foo=ignore"));