Mac Autocomplete Keybinding Outdated?

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After reading the docs, I found out that the default keybinding for triggering the autocomplete is Alt+`. But it seems that there isn’t even an alt key on MacOS anymore, and the logical alternative— Option+`— doesn’t work.

The following is the code block that declares the keybindings for triggering autocomplete (found in src/index.ts in @codemirror/autocomplete)

/// Basic keybindings for autocompletion.
///
///  - Ctrl-Space (and Alt-\` on macOS): [`startCompletion`](#autocomplete.startCompletion)
///  - Escape: [`closeCompletion`](#autocomplete.closeCompletion)
///  - ArrowDown: [`moveCompletionSelection`](#autocomplete.moveCompletionSelection)`(true)`
///  - ArrowUp: [`moveCompletionSelection`](#autocomplete.moveCompletionSelection)`(false)`
///  - PageDown: [`moveCompletionSelection`](#autocomplete.moveCompletionSelection)`(true, "page")`
///  - PageUp: [`moveCompletionSelection`](#autocomplete.moveCompletionSelection)`(false, "page")`
///  - Enter: [`acceptCompletion`](#autocomplete.acceptCompletion)
export const completionKeymap: readonly KeyBinding[] = [
  {key: "Ctrl-Space", run: startCompletion},
  {mac: "Alt-`", run: startCompletion},
  {key: "Escape", run: closeCompletion},
  {key: "ArrowDown", run: moveCompletionSelection(true)},
  {key: "ArrowUp", run: moveCompletionSelection(false)},
  {key: "PageDown", run: moveCompletionSelection(true, "page")},
  {key: "PageUp", run: moveCompletionSelection(false, "page")},
  {key: "Enter", run: acceptCompletion}
]

I have read somewhere that CodeMirror aims to match its keybindings with VSCode’s, so perhaps it should be changed to Command+I as in VSCode.

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Option and Alt are the same thing.

See this issue for the background here. It seems that half a year ago, Option-backtick was what VS Code used. But now I see that their docs list Option-I. Possibly because Option-backtick doesn’t work on some keyboard layouts?

I guess we should add Option-I as well, to follow VS Code. See attached patch.