Kitty hints processor for mouse clicking

This is a custom processor for the hints kitten in the kitty terminal emulator which allows you to send mouse click events to the program running in the terminal emulator.

Installation

Place the hints_mouse_click.py file in the same directory as kitty.conf.

If you want to match against emojis, you have to install the emoji package.

Map a key to launch the hints kitten with this processor. E.g. for using kitty_mod+y to right click on emojis add this to kitty.conf:

map kitty_mod+y kitten hints --type emoji --customize-processing hints_mouse_click.py right

This is used just like the standard hints kitten, except for these differences:

You can specify the mouse button you want to use as the last argument. This can be left, middle, right, scroll_up, scroll_down, scroll_left, scroll_right, back or forward. Defaults to left if not specified.
The --type option supports emoji and emoji_char_and_name in addition to the standard types. emoji will match emoji characters. emoji_char_and_name will in addition match the regex :[a-z0-9_+-]+: which is typically how emojis are represented by name in ascii. These two types force --minimum-match-length to 1 to be able to match emojis.