Can kitty change my vim theme?

[ldelossa]

Hey there,

So I'm attempting to have a single shortcut on my machine change my system and vim theme.

In vim, I have a key sequence bound to my theme change.

Would it be possible for me to use the remote feature of kitty to send the key sequence "escape dm" from an arbitrary shell (in my case the shell sway forks) targeting all kitty instances running "vim" ?

I was going thru the tutorial and I ran into two blockers:

1. Calling "kitty @ send-text" seems to only work from the shell you call "kitty @ launch" from.
2. I can't seem to find a way to send control characters such as "escape" with "send-text"

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1. Calling "kitty @ send-text" seems to only work from the shell you call "kitty @ launch" from.

You can enable remote control via UNIX socket for kitty and then use the parameter --to when calling kitty @.

2. I can't seem to find a way to send control characters such as "escape" with "send-text"

As for sending to all VIM windows, you can first find out all the window ids by -kitty @ ls and send them exactly. --match also supports matching running processes.

As for escape, you can just send it directly.

kitty @ send-text -m id:1 "\x1b"

You can see the key escape sequence with the following command.

kitty +kitten show_key

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Oh, I meant OS window. An instance can have more than one OS window.
This does not work if you want to have separate kitty processes (instances) in each workspace.
By all means, just use what works best for you.

[ldelossa]

Thanks for the help.

[ldelossa]

One more question, can I use the "--match" flag with the "--to" flag?

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Yes, it works together, and you can also use the KITTY_LISTEN_ON environment variable instead of the --to parameter. Please refer to the documentation for details.

[ldelossa]

Okay it seems to be failing to find my nvim processes. I launch it with a simple "nvim" call. I however launch my kitty terminals from a sway key binding. If I remove the match flag it all works.