Command palette

[VitGottwald]

Kitty has so much functionality that it is virtually impossible to map it all to keyboard shortcuts.

For example I just I set up shell integrations and love map kitty_mod+g show_last_command_output. To quickly copy text from the last command I set up map kitty_mod+shift+g launch --stdin-source=@last_cmd_output --type=overlay nvim. When scrolling back through the screen with map kitty_mod+x scroll_to_prompt 1 and map kitty_mod+z scroll_to_prompt -1 I would like to use show_first_command_output_on_screen and show_last_visited_command_output and their counterparts that would pipe the contents to my editor.

Then there is the hints kitten which can work with urls on screen, hidden urls (like the one produced by ls --hyperLink=auto), file path, file path with line number ...

It is simply impossible to have keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Would it be possible to get a command palette so that one could quickly invoke functionality that did not make it to the keyboard mapping? That would make all the power of kitty available through one shortcut followed by fuzzy search through all the out of the box functionality.

Even better would be the possibility to define own palette items similarly to the way keyboard shortcuts are defined today. For example

map_menu 'Pipe last visited command to neovim' launch --stdin-source=@last_visited_cmd_output --type=overlay nvim

[kovidgoyal]

There is already a kitty shell for this. Press ctrl+shift+esc It doesnt have fuzzy search but it has normal shell completion with tab.

[VitGottwald]

Can I invoke scroll_to_prompt -1 from the kitty shell?

[kovidgoyal]

Any remote control command can be invoked, one particular remote control command is, `action` which in turn allows you to invoke any mappable action.

[VitGottwald]

If I invoke the kitty shell, how do I run the action scroll_to_prompt -1 against the window I was in before pressing CMD+ESC?

[kovidgoyal]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 01:18:36PM -0800, Vit Gottwald wrote: If I invoke the kitty shell, how do I run the action `scroll_to_prompt -1` against the window I was in before pressing `CMD+ESC`?

action combine focus_previous_window : scroll_to_prompt -1

[VitGottwald]

The focus_previous_window actions does not seem to exist

🐱 action focus_previous_window 
Error: Unknown action: focus_previous_window`

And when I try

🐱 action combine : focus_visible_window : scroll_to_prompt -1

it only focuses on the window but does not execute the scroll.

[kovidgoyal]

Got the name slightly wrong, its previous_window https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#action-previous_window

[VitGottwald]

🐱 action combine previous_window : show_to_prompt -1

Failed to parse action


combine previous_window : show_to_prompt -1
'Unknown action: :'

Press e to see detailed traceback or any other key to exit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lib/python3.12/kitty/boss.py", line 1658, in combine
  File "lib/python3.12/kitty/options/utils.py", line 1100, in resolve_aliases
  File "lib/python3.12/kitty/options/utils.py", line 1148, in resolve_aliases_and_parse_actions
  File "lib/python3.12/kitty/options/utils.py", line 1150, in resolve_aliases_and_parse_actions
  File "lib/python3.12/kitty/options/utils.py", line 1076, in parse_key_action
KeyError: 'Unknown action: :'



Press Enter or Esc to exit

[kovidgoyal]

you forgot the colon after the combine.

[VitGottwald]

🐱 action combine : previous_window : scroll_to_prompt -1

This does perform the two actions but not as expected:

1. It moves the cursor the the previous window ✅
2. It does the scroll to previous prompt ✅, but not in the previous window, but in the kitty shell window 🟥

[kovidgoyal]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:12:54PM -0800, Vit Gottwald wrote: ``` 🐱 action combine : previous_window : scroll_to_prompt -1 ``` This does perform the two actions but not as expected: 1. It moves the cursor the the previous window ✅ 2. It does the scroll to previous prompt ✅, but not in the previous window, but in the kitty shell window 🟥

Try action combine : close_window : scroll_to_prompt -1

[VitGottwald]

It closes the kitty shell window, but in the previous window no scroll happens.

[kovidgoyal]

There you go, no need to sue action at all: f29bc63 Now you can just do: scroll-window --match recent:1 1r-