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Remote control: Allow using a random TCP socket as the remote control socket and also allow using TCP sockets in kitty.conf

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Kovid Goyal
2023-08-04 11:12:31 +05:30
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@@ -2882,18 +2882,18 @@ prevents any form of remote control. The meaning of the various values are:
opt('listen_on', 'none',
long_text='''
Listen to the specified UNIX socket for remote control connections. Note that
this will apply to all kitty instances. It can be overridden by the
:option:`kitty --listen-on` command line option, which also supports listening
on a TCP socket. This option accepts only UNIX sockets, such as
Listen to the specified socket for remote control connections. Note that this
will apply to all kitty instances. It can be overridden by the :option:`kitty
--listen-on` command line option. For UNIX sockets, such as
:code:`unix:${TEMP}/mykitty` or :code:`unix:@mykitty` (on Linux). Environment
variables are expanded and relative paths are resolved with respect to the
temporary directory. If :code:`{kitty_pid}` is present, then it is replaced by
the PID of the kitty process, otherwise the PID of the kitty process is
appended to the value, with a hyphen. See the help for :option:`kitty
--listen-on` for more details. Note that this will be ignored unless
:opt:`allow_remote_control` is set to either: :code:`yes`, :code:`socket` or
:code:`socket-only`.
appended to the value, with a hyphen. For TCP sockets such as
:code:`tcp:localhost:0` a random port is always used even if a non-zero port
number is specified. See the help for :option:`kitty --listen-on` for more
details. Note that this will be ignored unless :opt:`allow_remote_control` is
set to either: :code:`yes`, :code:`socket` or :code:`socket-only`.
Changing this option by reloading the config is not supported.
'''
)