How to integrate with kitty-navigator.nvim

[thisisrandy]

I use kitty and kitty-navigator.nvim to make <c-h/j/k/l> switch seamlessly between terminal windows and vim splits. sidekick remaps these to nav_left/down/up/right in cli.win.keys. The result is that e.g. if cli.win.layout = "right", only <c-h> does anything from the agent window. This appears to be by design (per Configuration, these are only "active when ... there is another window in the direction"). However, it doesn't meet my needs, which are that my kitty-navigator mappings work as expected.

Current behavior

• kitty-navigator mappings as configured work between
  • vim splits
  • terminal windows
  • vim splits and terminal windows
  • vim/term at shell prompt and term running e.g. crush or copilot
  • all above and embedded terminals (launched via :te)
  • all above and embedded terminals running crush or copilot (not launched via sidekick)
• kitty-navigator mappings as configured work to enter sidekick windows from vim and also from terminal, but only when the sidekick window is already focused in vim (this is expected. kitty-navigator is not aware of vim and kitty window placement simultaneously. It handle one or the other depending on context, so the last focused vim window is always reentered based only on its terminal window location).

What I tried

Overwriting cli.win.keys.nav_* with my kitty-navigator mappings, which look like this:

      {
        "<C-h>",
        function()
          require("kitty-navigator").navigateLeft()
        end,
        desc = "Move left a Split",
        mode = { "n", "t" },
      }

Now I can navigate out of the sidekick window to a terminal window, but if I try to move from sidekick to a vim window, I get E565: Not allowed to change text or change window.

Help!

[thisisrandy]

I looked into the way sidekick does things in comparison to kitty-navigator, and the only difference when it tries to use vim fns (wincmd, in particular) is that sidekick invokes it via vim.schedule. If I modify the kitty-navigator code to use vim.schedule, things work perfectly.

I'm going to do two things:

1. Submit a PR to kitty-navigator to use vim.schedule. (Merged)
2. Submit a feature request to sidekick to "fall back" to other mappings kind of like the way remap works. I'm not quite sure how to do that (the code, that is), but hopefully someone can provide some help. (Submitted)