Conditional launch about kitty HOT 2 CLOSED

This kind of thing is trivially accomplished using either a kitten (written in python) or a remote control script, written in any language you like that can call the kitten @ binary to perform remote control commands.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/custom/
or
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/
especially focus on remote_control_script (and no you dont need to turn on remote control globally for this) https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/#mapping-key-presses-to-remote-control-commands

from kitty.

Indeed. remote_control_script is all I need.

#!/bin/bash

TITLE=$1
shift

if (kitten @ ls --self -t title:${TITLE} 2>/dev/null); then
  kitten @ action toggle_tab title:${TITLE}
else
  kitten @ launch --type=tab --tab-title=${TITLE} "$@"
fi

from kitty.