kitty @ focus-tab --match index:2

[daniel-pfeiffer]

Since the only information documented as addable to a tab-title is the index, the above syntax would be very handy!

So, may I suggest adding/adapting these lines to boss.match_tabs? Untested, and not sure about the 2nd line, the like of which I searched for on StackOverflow. Apparently something intuitive like self.all_tabs[exp - 1] would have made people's lives too easy. This would also need error handling, if exp is out of range:

        elif field == 'index':
            next((tab for i, tab in enumerate(self.all_tabs) if i + 1 == exp), None)
            if tab:
                yield tab
                found = True

Btw: Trying to build, I got harfbuzzed :-o and replacing boss.pyc by a modified boss.py has no effect. Actually the whole .local/kitty.app/lib/python3.9/kitty directory seems superfluous (removed it and kitty still works.) Not sure what magic that is.

[kovidgoyal]

kitty loads its python code from a single mmapped file as optimized
bytecode for performance. So you cant monkeypatch it easily. If you
want to you can modify the python only parts of kitty, as described
here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/docs/build.rst
in the note near the top