How to escape space in kitten path?

[mcchrish]

It's more of a general question about kitty config rather than the plugin.

I have a config line in kitty like this:

action_alias kitty_scrollback_nvim kitten '~/Library/Application Support/nvim/lazy/kitty-scrollback.nvim/python/kitty_scrollback_nvim.py'

But it doesn't work because the the space between Application Support.

Also tried escape:

action_alias kitty_scrollback_nvim kitten ~/Library/Application\ Support/nvim/lazy/kitty-scrollback.nvim/python/kitty_scrollback_nvim.py

[mikesmithgh]

I took a quick look, and I don't believe you can escape a space in an argument to action_alias at the moment. I'll look into this a bit more to confirm.

You can workaround this by using a symlink to your ~/.config/kitty directory. For example,

ln -s '~/Library/Application Support/nvim/lazy/kitty-scrollback.nvim' ~/.config/kitty/kitty-scrollback.nvim

Then in your kitty.conf, do:

action_alias kitty_scrollback_nvim kitten kitty-scrollback.nvim/python/kitty_scrollback_nvim.py

@mcchrish Let me know if that works, thanks!

[mcchrish]

Thanks @mikesmithgh! Symlink workaround works and .config/kitty is a perfect place since kitty uses anyway.

[mikesmithgh]

Awesome. I opened an issue kovidgoyal/kitty#8178 against the Kitty repo for this 👍

[mikesmithgh]

@mcchrish kovidgoyal/kitty#8178 is fixed on Kitty nightly now 🥳 . So, when the next version of Kitty is released you can just wrap the path in quotes and will no longer need the symlink. I've also added some comments during the :KittyScrollbackGenerateKittens command to let the user know if the plugin is in a path that contains whitespace.