Launch editor in a kitty tab from qutebrowser?

[mortenivar]

Does anybody here use qutebrowser? I would like to launch my editor on text input fields, such as the one I am writing in now, and make the editor show up in a kitty tab in an existing kitty session. qutebrowser has a command that will launch an editor with a key stroke on a text input field so you may edit the contents in our editor, save them and then have the contents inserted into the browsers text input field once you leave the editor. E.g. the command in the qutebrowser config file:

c.editor.command = ["xterm", "jed", "exec {line}g{column0}l", "{}", "-f", "text_mode"]

would launch my editor, jed, in an xterm.

I am trying the following with kitty:

c.editor.command = ["kitty", "@", "launch", "--type=tab", "--no-response", "jed", "{}", "-f", "text_mode"]

but qutebrowser responds with:

Process 49277: kitty
Info
Command
kitty @ launch --type=tab --no-response jed /tmp/qutebrowser-editor-_g9ibhxr -f text_mode
StatusEditor exited with status 1.
Standard output
No output.
Standard error
Error: open /dev/tty: no such device or address

Does anybody know how I should construct the command?

[kovidgoyal]

You need ot setup remote control on a socket first. Then use kitten @ --to unix:yoursocket launch ...

[mortenivar]

Well as far as my question went, your answer was indeed correct. However, the contents are not being inserted back into the text field, once I leave the editor. I was using this command in qutebrowser:

c.editor.command = ["kitty", "@", "--to", "unix:/tmp/kitty", "launch", "--type=tab", "--no-response", "jed", "exec {line}g{column0}l", "{}", "-f", "text_mode"]

after having launched kitty with: kitty --listen-on=unix:/tmp/kitty

With just this command (which launches a new instance of kitty):

c.editor.command = ["kitty", "jed", "exec {line}g{column0}l", "{}", "-f", "text_mode"]

the contents are being inserted back into the text input field as they should. Can I tweak the first command so I can get the best of both worlds?

[kovidgoyal]

You need to have your command wait until the editor exits. How you do that is up to you. For instance, use a script that runs the remote control command and then waits until the window with the returned id is closed, which it can do by polling using kitten @ ls --match. Or if you want to be more sophisticated instead of running the editor, run a script which runs the editor and then uses some form of IPC to signal the first script when the editor quits. It can do so easily using kill to send the signal. The options are endless.

[kovidgoyal]

Oh and I forgot, you can use

kitten @ run

instead of kitten @ launch

this will allow you extreme flexibility in how to run your editor and get the text from it.