hatch_terminal.asciidoc

hatch_terminal.kak

This script allows spawning a shell or an arbitrary command in a new window, exporting information about the current session in the environment.

Commands

The following commands are specialized implementations that all follow the same prototype. They all take an optional argument, a shell command that will be run in the newly created window. If no command is passed, a shell is spawned.

The environment of the newly created window will contain the following environment variables:

• KAK_SESSION: name of the parent session that spawned the window

• KAK_CLIENT: name of the parent client that spawned the window

hatch-terminal-x11

Implementation used when no multiplexer is detected and the $DISPLAY environment variable is not empty. A new terminal is spawned using the termcmd option.

hatch-terminal-tmux

Implementation used when the $TMUX environment variable is not empty, creates an horizontal split by default.

hatch-terminal-dvtm

Implementation used when the $DVTM environment variable is not empty.

Aliases

hatch-terminal

The hatch-terminal alias is automatically set to one of the commands defined by the script, according to the environment in which the session is set.