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Allow creating overlay-main windows, which are treated as the active window unlike normal overlays

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Fixes #5392
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Kovid Goyal
2022-09-03 19:04:31 +05:30
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top of an existing kitty window, entirely covering it. Overlays are used
throughout kitty, for example, to display the :ref:`the scrollback buffer <scrollback>`,
to display :doc:`hints </kittens/hints>`, for :doc:`unicode input
</kittens/unicode_input>` etc.
</kittens/unicode_input>` etc. Normal overlays are meant for short
duration popups and so are not considered the :italic:`active window`
when determining the current working directory or getting input text for
kittens, launch commands, etc. To create an overlay considered as a
:italic:`main window` use the :code:`overlay-main` argument to
:doc:`launch`.
hyperlinks
Terminals can have hyperlinks, just like the internet. In kitty you can