I haven't used a mac in years, but I know for sure that I had found a workaround. I would go insane without "Alt+." on the shell, I use it very, very frequently.

Try this: https://lorenzo.mile.si/macos-iterm2-use-linux-keyboard-shor...

Thanks, i'm using iTerm2, which seems to have an experimental feature for repeat previous character escape sequence enabled by default, but doesn't really work that well, I suspect it's the touchbar escape key that doesn't play too nicely to the hold

edit: I'm dumb, that was for iTerm, I got it working!