how to navigate with pinentry

I was was using gpg --gen-key till I got to enter the passphrase where I get: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Please enter Passphrase, │ │ │ │ Passphrase: ________________________________________ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ After some digging I found out this came from gpg-agent which in turn uses pinentry. All I can do here is enter passphrase (which works fine) and press tab, which makes the blinking cursor disappear. But how to I select ` or in pinentry`? gpg was installed on osx via brew When I try CTL+C I get: gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting but can still continue typing a passphrase.