Nested Tabs about kitty HOT 3 CLOSED

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nested tabs arent worth the complexity to me. For your specific use
case, you could use the existing overlay windows feature. You create a
tall layout tab and on the right put your second terminal window as an
overlay of the first.

Then you would need to write a relatively simple kitten that could can be
mapped to some keystroke to switch between the two overlay windows,
probably by swapping which window is an overlay and which is the base
window.

Another simple way to achieve this is if you use a tiling window
manager, you can have two kitty OS windows one with your main panel on
the left and the second with two tabs on the right.

from kitty.

I'm not sure if the overlays would quite accomplish the same thing.

For the left side, it's actually split as well (3 terminal panes total, one on the right and two on the left), and it's within both of the splits on the left that swapping terminals would be helpful. That's something per-split tabs would solve that in a way that's not possible. That means it wouldn't be two OS windows, it'd be three, which is pretty clunky. It's so much nicer to just maximize a kitty window and work within that.

Right now we can jump between the split panes using ctrl-shift-[ and ]. It'd be great to be able to do that but separating them out into separate kitty windows kills that feature.

Using a tiling window manager is a bit of a lame solution, and doesn't jive with macOS either, as then the window manager's hotkeys are added into the mix whereas kitty could do it so much better on its own without any flash or delay when focus moves around. We'd also get to use kitty's native hotkeys for moving between panes. Another wrinkle is that the panes would have kitty's focus indicators if it were a native feature. Using multiple OS-level windows means they all visually display as "focused" panes.

Anyways, I'm just explaining why this seemed like a useful feature. Maybe I should switch to a tiling window manager after all. Thanks for quickly explaining that this is considered too complex to be worth it ~ I appreciate that.

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