How to debug about kitty-color-control

[kovidgoyal]

Just FYI you dont need to use remote control for these. There are escape codes for changing the background/foreground and cursor colors, you can simply use those. It should make your plugin much simpler/more robust, and it will work with any terminal emulator, not just kitty.

And also note that in master kitty now has a setting for reverse video of the cursor.

[smeikx]

Hi!

I will properly test it on macOS this week, maybe the issue becomes obvious quickly.

Unfortunately, the only way of debugging I have done so far is sprinkling print() over possible points of failure.

If you want to have a look at the code, I encourage you to give it a shot (it is a relatively small plugin).
Anyway, I will come back to you as soon as I know more.

[smeikx]

Thanks for the advice!

I’ll be experimenting with escape codes (first have to figure out how to use them) and hopefully get this thing working properly on macOS in the process.

[kovidgoyal]

For colors, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#how-do-i-change-the-colors-in-a-running-kitty-instance it documents the needed escape codes.

[smeikx]

Created an issue for this: #2