Broadcast kitten: map to match current tab

[aorith]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a mapping to trigger the new Broadcast kitten matching only the current tab windows.
AFAIK there is an env variable pointing to the current kitty window id but not the current tab id.

At this moment I'm using a "kitten wrapper" but I'm sure there is a better solution:

map kitty_mod+s kitten kittens/broadcast_to_current_tab.py

# broadcast_to_current_tab.py
from kittens.tui.handler import result_handler


def main(args):
    pass


@result_handler(no_ui=True)
def handle_result(args, answer, target_window_id, boss):
    tab = boss.active_tab
    boss.launch(
        "--allow-remote-control",
        "--type=os-window",
        "--title=Broadcast",
        "/bin/bash",
        "-lc",
        f"kitty +kitten broadcast --match-tab=id:{tab.id}",
    )

Many thanks in advance!

[kovidgoyal]

Just use --match-tab and specify the window id, this will select the tab containing the window. The only issue is if there is also a tab with the same id, in that case it will select that tab instead, but this should be relatively rare. If that is a problem for you, it should be an easy patch to add window_id based matching to --match-tab.

[aorith]

Hey!

I just saw your last commit, that simplifies it a lot. Thanks!

[Felixoid]

Worth mentioning the recent improvement. --match-tab accepts now recent:0 argument for the current tab.