How to make markers enabled when startup without toggling?

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I know I can start the terminal, and press some keys like f1 to enable markers. Can I make makers enabled by default? I'm pretty sure my markers do not harm performance too much. Thanks.

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This can be achieved using watcher, and here is an example.

from typing import Any, Dict

from kitty.typing import BossType
from kitty.window import Window


def on_focus_change(boss: BossType, window: 'Window', data: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
    if data.get('focused'):
        window.set_marker('text 1 ERROR')                  
    else:
        window.remove_marker()

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/invocation/#cmdoption-kitty-watcher
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#cmdoption-launch-watcher

In the current unreleased version (try with the nightly version), the global watcher can be defined in the configuration file.

Or use launch to open a new window with marker enabled by default.

launch --marker "text 1 ERROR"

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#cmdoption-launch-marker

Or configure the default window to enable marker in the startup session file.

startup_session.conf

launch --marker "text 1 ERROR"

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.startup_session

Or use remote control

.bashrc

kitty @ create-marker text 1 ERROR

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/#kitty-create-marker

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The .bashrc way works perfectly. But I'd like to keep kitty configs separatly.

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You need to escape correctly, for example the following is fine.

launch --marker 'regex 1 \\bERROR\\b'

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Thanks, works like a charm.

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Hi, I have one more question.

Is there a way to have the same markers work for startup session, new tabs, and new windows without writing the same --marker many times and binding different keys like map f12 launch --type=tab --marker ... and map f11 launch --marker ... in kitty.conf or launch --marker ... in session file?

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As far as I know, no. You can define the map ... using a separate configuration file, with include /path/to/marker-shortcuts.conf in kitty.conf. Then use a script to generate the configuration file and the session file.

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Thanks for the advice, I will try it. I've thought that I could put some configs to startup session to achieve this, but didn't seem to find the right API for it.

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@liebkne Please check my latest example. However only for windows that are opened by default.

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IIRC you can use remote control for that, just add the remote control command to your shell rc files.