Using kitty for nnn's detached text feature

[lokesh-krishna]

I recently switched to nnn and in its wiki, there's an example to open a text file in a xfce-terminal window. I would like to achieve something similar but instead use kitty.

I know this is possible with kitty's remote control protocol and figured out that I'd need kitty @launch nvim but what I'm unable to figure out is how to pass nnn's present selection to this instance of kitty. The example uses \"$*\" but this doesn't work for when running kitty @launch nvim "\$"\. What this does is launch neovim in a new kitty window with the correct filename but it's not the desired file.

What's the right way of doing this?

[kovidgoyal]

Not sure what your question is. Running kitty @ launch vim "/path/to/some/file" in a shell works fine. If its not working in nnn run a shell script instead that logs the argument passed to it, to check what nnn is passing to it.