SijanC147/alfred-kitty

Alfred workflow to work more seamlessly with TUIs using Kitty's remote control API

alfred-kitty

Alfred workflow to work more seamlessly with TUIs using Kitty's remote control API

This is heavily inspired, and built upon https://github.com/pyrho/alfred-kitty-tab-switch/

with the following changes:

• Many additional features next to tab switching: execute in kitty from alfred using ,
• paste current selection into a new kitty tab (speed up copy pasting things from stackoverflow)
• File actions
  • open selected directory in kitty in new tab
  • open selected file in neovim
  • open selected file in visidata (https://github.com/saulpw/visidata)
  • send selected file via airdrop (requires hammerspoon)
• Switch tabs,
  • Allows tabs with identical names, and allows switching between the different tabs with identical names (the original would always switch to the first tab)
  • Expose more information
• Execute command in new kitty tab

Note: you can't just install it - manual setup (2min) required - follow the install instructions

PRs welcome! This is very early and I've been using it for a few days only

Installation

• make sure to have set up kitty as you custom terminal! you need to set up a custom terminal see here, you can use the script provided here in ./custom_terminal.applescript (make sure to use the correct path to the kitty application!)
• Follow https://25.wf/posts/2020-03-23-alfred-kitty.html to make sure you can launch kitty via fixed unix socket
• install this workflow by clicking on the kitty.alfredworkflow
• change the many paths in the workflow to point to your executables (i've compiled both neovim and kitty from source so this will be different for you!) see here
• If you want to replace neovim with another terminal editor (emacs, vim, ...) change the respective binary
• To get the airdrop workflow working put the following into your init.lua

  -- url encoding
  local hex_to_char = function(x)
    return string.char(tonumber(x, 16))
  end
  
  -- url encoding
  local unescape = function(url)
    return url:gsub("%%(%x%x)", hex_to_char)
  end
  
  
  hs.urlevent.bind("airdrop", function(eventName, params)
      print(hs.inspect.inspect(params))
  
      local file = params["f"]
      local url = hs.sharing.fileURL(file)
      local ad = hs.sharing.builtinSharingServices.sendViaAirDrop
      local s = hs.sharing.newShare(ad)
      s:shareItems({url})
  end)

Shortcuts

• CMD+Shift+A: paste current selection into kitty
• CMD+Shift+S: Show open tabs
• CMD+Shift+D: Run command in terminal

Credits

• @pyrho for https://github.com/pyrho/alfred-kitty-tab-switch/
• https://25.wf/posts/2020-03-23-alfred-kitty.html for helping with unix socket setup
• @saulpw for the best thing that happened to csv since its inception and the best terminal app next to neovim: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

Dependencies

• visidata
• awk
• jq
• kitty