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Docs: Improve the documentation for kittens

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Add more text roles and links.
Add an example that broadcasts only to other windows in the current tab.
Initial capitalization of the key names in the kbd text role.
Add Python type hints for custom kittens.
Note about hyperlink support for ls on macOS.
Add description text for show_key.
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Hints
==========
|kitty| has a *hints mode* to select and act on arbitrary text snippets currently
visible on the screen. For example, you can press :sc:`open_url`
to choose any URL visible on the screen and then open it using your system
|kitty| has a *hints mode* to select and act on arbitrary text snippets
currently visible on the screen. For example, you can press :sc:`open_url`
to choose any URL visible on the screen and then open it using your default web
browser.
.. figure:: ../screenshots/hints_mode.png
@@ -13,25 +13,29 @@ browser.
URL hints mode
Similarly, you can press :sc:`insert_selected_path` to
select anything that looks like a path or filename and then insert it into the
terminal, very useful for picking files from the output of a ``git`` or ``ls`` command and
adding them to the command line for the next command.
Similarly, you can press :sc:`insert_selected_path` to select anything that
looks like a path or filename and then insert it into the terminal, very useful
for picking files from the output of a :program:`git` or :program:`ls` command
and adding them to the command line for the next command.
You can also press :sc:`goto_file_line` to select anything that looks
like a path or filename followed by a colon and a line number and open
the file in vim at the specified line number. The patterns and editor
to be used can be modified using options passed to the kitten. For example::
You can also press :sc:`goto_file_line` to select anything that looks like a
path or filename followed by a colon and a line number and open the file in
:program:`vim` at the specified line number. The patterns and editor to be used
can be modified using options passed to the kitten. For example::
map ctrl+g kitten hints --type=linenum --linenum-action=tab nvim +{line} {path}
will open the selected file in a new tab inside neovim when you press
:kbd:`ctrl+g`.
will open the selected file in a new tab inside `Neovim <https://neovim.io/>`__
when you press :kbd:`Ctrl+G`.
Pressing :sc:`open_selected_hyperlink` will open hyperlinks, i.e. a URL
Pressing :sc:`open_selected_hyperlink` will open :term:`hyperlinks`, i.e. a URL
that has been marked as such by the program running in the terminal,
for example, by ``ls --hyperlink=auto``. You can also :doc:`customize what actions are
taken for different types of URLs <../open_actions>`.
for example, by ``ls --hyperlink=auto``. If :program:`ls` comes with your OS
does not support hyperlink, you may need to install `GNU Coreutils
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>`__.
You can also :doc:`customize what actions are taken for different types of URLs
<../open_actions>`.
.. note:: If there are more hints than letters, hints will use multiple
letters. In this case, when you press the first letter, only hints
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The hints kitten supports writing simple python scripts that can be used to
completely customize how it finds matches and what happens when a match is
selected. This allows the hints kitten to provide the user interface, while
you can provide the logic for finding matches and performing actions on them.
This is best illustrated with an example. Create the file
:file:`custom-hints.py` in the kitty config directory with the following
contents:
selected. This allows the hints kitten to provide the user interface, while you
can provide the logic for finding matches and performing actions on them. This
is best illustrated with an example. Create the file :file:`custom-hints.py` in
the :ref:`kitty config directory <confloc>` with the following contents:
.. code-block:: python
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.. note::
To avoid having to specify the same command line options on every invocation,
you can use the :opt:`action_alias` option in :file:`kitty.conf`, creating aliases
that have common sets of options. For example::
To avoid having to specify the same command line options on every
invocation, you can use the :opt:`action_alias` option in
:file:`kitty.conf`, creating aliases that have common sets of options.
For example::
action_alias myhints kitten hints --alphabet qfjdkslaureitywovmcxzpq1234567890
map f1 myhints --customize-processing custom-hints.py