Support for direction of windows (left_window, right_window, up_window, down_window)

[esn89]

Hi I was wondering if this support currently exists, or is something in the roadmap.
Coming from years of vim and other vim like tools, I have a habit with kitty_mod + {h,j,k,l} to select the window relative to where I am at.

Is there any way of doing so?

[kovidgoyal]

It's not in the roadmap, but it is pretty trivial to implement, I might get to it someday. Personally, I would prefer a visual selector. Press a key see numbers/letters overlaid over the windows and pick the one you want.

In the meantime, patches are welcome, if you wish to work on this and you need guidance, feel free to ask, I will be happy to help.

[esn89]

Thanks for the quick reply.

For starters, which file should I start looking into for examples if I were to make a PR?

[kovidgoyal]

Just grep the code for next_window you would need to implement similar functions for left_window, right_window, etc

[esn89]

and to build the app/view my changes, it is simply: make app? and then run the binary that results?

[kovidgoyal]

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/build.html

[esn89]

Thank you so much @kovidgoyal , you are the best!

[kovidgoyal]

you're welcome :)

[strix]

This is awesome! Any way you’ll extend this functionality to movement as well?

[kovidgoyal]

Sure cb36713

[strix]

Thank you!