nvim-kitty-navigator

This is a pure lua port of vim-kitty-navigator. When combined with a set of kitty key bindings and kittens, the plugin allows you to navigate between nvim and kitty splits using a consistent mappings.

NOTE: This requires kitty v0.13.1 or higher.

Usage

This plugin provides the following mappings which allow you to move between Vim panes and kitty splits seamlessly.

• <ctrl-h> => Left
• <ctrl-j> => Down
• <ctrl-k> => Up
• <ctrl-l> => Right

Installation

packer.nvim:

use {
  'hermitmaster/nvim-kitty-navigator',
  run = './install',
  config = function()
    require('nvim-kitty-navigator').setup {}
  end
}

The pass_keys.py kitten is used to intercept keybindings defined in your kitty conf and "pass" them through to vim when it is focused. The neighboring_window.py kitten is used to send the neighboring_window command (e.g. kitten @ neighboring_window.py right) from vim when you've reached the last pane and are ready to switch to a non-vim kitty window.

Add this snippet to kitty.conf

Add the following to your ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf file:

allow_remote_control yes
map ctrl+j kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window bottom ctrl+j
map ctrl+k kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window top    ctrl+k
map ctrl+h kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window left   ctrl+h
map ctrl+l kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window right  ctrl+l

By default vim-kitty-navigator uses the name of the current foreground process to detect when it is in a (neo)vim session or not. If that doesn't work, (or if you want to support applications other than vim) you can supply a fourth optional argument to the pass_keys.py call in your kitty.conf file to match the process name.

allow_remote_control yes
map ctrl+j kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window bottom ctrl+j "^.* - nvim$"
map ctrl+k kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window top    ctrl+k "^.* - nvim$"
map ctrl+h kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window left   ctrl+h "^.* - nvim$"
map ctrl+l kitten pass_keys.py neighboring_window right  ctrl+l "^.* - nvim$"

Make kitty listen to control messages

Start kitty with the listen-on option so that vim can send commands to it.

# Linux only:
kitty --single-instance --listen-on unix:@mykitty

# Other unix systems:
kitty --single-instance --listen-on unix:/tmp/mykitty