kitty/docs/rc_protocol.rst
Kovid Goyal fb838a694e
...
2020-08-11 13:08:16 +05:30

30 lines
1.0 KiB
ReStructuredText

Documentation for the kitty remote control protocol
======================================================
The kitty remote control protocol is a simple protocol that involves sending
data to kitty in the form of JSON. Any individual command of kitty has the
form::
<ESC>P@kitty-cmd<JSON object><ESC>\
Where ``<ESC>`` is the byte ``0x1b``. The JSON object has the form::
{
"cmd": "command name",
"version": <kitty version>,
"no_response": Optional Boolean,
"payload": <Optional JSON object>,
}
The ``version`` above is an array of the form :code:`[0, 14, 2]`. If you are developing a
standalone client, use the kitty version that you are developing against. Using
a version greater than the version of the kitty instance you are talking to,
will cause a failure.
Set ``no_response`` to ``true`` if you don't want a response from kitty.
The optional payload is a JSON object that is specific to the actual command being sent.
The fields in the object for every command are documented below.
.. include:: generated/rc.rst