diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 329a24c8a6b76..4d34e6e6bd0df 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "crossterm"
 version = "0.25.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e64e6c0fbe2c17357405f7c758c1ef960fce08bdfb2c03d88d2a18d7e09c4b67"
+source = "git+https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm?rev=refs/pull/735/head#be8032343090498ecc9cbe544f44614d4a1eab87"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
  "crossterm_winapi",
+ "filedescriptor",
  "futures-core",
  "libc",
  "mio",
@@ -446,6 +446,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "filedescriptor"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7199d965852c3bac31f779ef99cbb4537f80e952e2d6aa0ffeb30cce00f4f46e"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "thiserror",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "filetime"
 version = "0.2.18"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ecf6848e04a17..3dfb3f5d7970c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,3 +25,7 @@ lto = "fat"
 codegen-units = 1
 # strip = "debuginfo" # TODO: or strip = true
 opt-level = 3
+
+
+[patch.crates-io]
+crossterm = { git = "https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm", rev = "refs/pull/735/head" }
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index 895a08828a989..389d8d9c2cf61 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ which = "4.2"
 
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread", "io-util", "io-std", "time", "process", "macros", "fs", "parking_lot"] }
 tui = { path = "../helix-tui", package = "helix-tui", default-features = false, features = ["crossterm"] }
-crossterm = { version = "0.25", features = ["event-stream"] }
+crossterm = { version = "0.25", features = ["event-stream", "use-dev-tty"] }
 signal-hook = "0.3"
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
 futures-util = { version = "0.3", features = ["std", "async-await"], default-features = false }
diff --git a/helix-term/src/application.rs b/helix-term/src/application.rs
index c0cbc24514837..b6d690519e55e 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/application.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/application.rs
@@ -239,11 +239,6 @@ impl Application {
             }
         } else if stdin().is_tty() || cfg!(feature = "integration") {
             editor.new_file(Action::VerticalSplit);
-        } else if cfg!(target_os = "macos") {
-            // On Linux and Windows, we allow the output of a command to be piped into the new buffer.
-            // This doesn't currently work on macOS because of the following issue:
-            //   https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm/issues/500
-            anyhow::bail!("Piping into helix-term is currently not supported on macOS");
         } else {
             editor
                 .new_file_from_stdin(Action::VerticalSplit)