How do I do scroll_line_up with more lines on a single keystroke?

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I'm not sure if this is not a feature request because it could also already exist if it's possible to repeat a kitty command. I think that it doesn't exist so I ask whether there is a possibility to scroll several lines up or down.
I want this because this way I could read text more clearly after I do page scrolls and I want to see only the several next/previous lines of the output.

I'm not sure what "solution" I would like because this could be implemented in various ways.
I could do a macro on my side that repeats the key multiple times or it could be a repeat argument to the kitty terminal (something as in bash shell when I press Alt+number). It could also simply be a hardcoded number of lines to be scrolled like this: map alt+k scroll_line_up 5.
It could also probably work if I could do this (too hacky, probably you don't want to do this kind of parsing because it may interfere with other command parsing):
map alt+k scroll_line_up; scroll_line_up; scroll_line_up; scroll_line_up

Currently I press the keys multiple times to scroll lines multiple times.

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Currently you can use the combine action to achieve the second way.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/actions/#action-combine

map f1 combine : scroll_line_up : scroll_line_up : scroll_line_up

You can also scroll any line or page in the first way by binding the remote control action scroll-window.
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/#kitty-scroll-window

map f1 remote_control scroll-window 3-

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Alright. That's a pretty good way to do it.
Is it possible to scroll by half of a window? I think I can only specify lines and whole windows 🤔
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/#kitty-scroll-window

I tried to use

remote_control scroll-window 0.5p-

but this fails when the integer is parsed.
Is this possible to do?

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I'll have this config for now (I use home-row only):

## Line up/down
map alt+k scroll_line_up
map alt+j scroll_line_down

# Page up/down
map alt+u remote_control scroll-window 30- # 25 lines
map alt+d remote_control scroll-window 30+ # 25 lines
map alt+shift+u scroll_page_up
map alt+shift+d scroll_page_down

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Is it possible to scroll by half of a window?
... this fails when the integer is parsed.

Not at the moment, I think this feature is useful and can be added.

For now, you can write a custom kitten to achieve that.
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/custom/
Calculate the number of lines and scroll.

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It should be a pretty simple patch to scroll_window.py PRs welcome