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Allow passing the current selection to kittens

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Fixes #2796
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Kovid Goyal
2020-06-25 08:46:05 +05:30
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@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ You can pass arguments to kittens by defining them in the map directive in
These will be available as the ``args`` parameter in the ``main()`` and
``handle_result()`` functions. Note also that the current working directory
of the kitten is set to the working directory of whatever program is
running in the active kitty window.
running in the active kitty window. The special argument ``@selection``
is replaced by the currently selected text in the active kitty window.
Passing the contents of the screen to the kitten
@@ -87,7 +88,8 @@ This will send the plain text of the active window to the kitten's
:file:`STDIN`. For text with formatting escape codes, use ``ansi``
instead. If you want line wrap markers as well, use ``screen-ansi``
or just ``screen``. For the scrollback buffer as well, use
``history``, ``ansi-history`` or ``screen-history``.
``history``, ``ansi-history`` or ``screen-history``. To get
the currently selected text, use ``selection``.
Using kittens to script kitty, without any terminal UI