How to update kitten?

[steakhutzeee]

Hello!

When the nvim plugin is updated, is it required to also update the kitten, like running nvim --headless +'KittyScrollbackGenerateKittens' again?

Thank you!

[mikesmithgh]

Hi @steakhutzeee,

No, nvim --headless +'KittyScrollbackGenerateKittens' is only necessary to run when you are first setting kitty-scrollback.nvim up.

That just generates the suggested commands to use in your kitty.conf.

I don't have any plans to, but if for whatever reason there was a need to rerun KittyScrollbackGenerateKittens, I would document it on the README similar to https://github.com/mikesmithgh/kitty-scrollback.nvim?tab=readme-ov-file#-migrating-to-v600 and announce here/reddit.

Just some extra details:

The command KittyScrollbackGenerateKittens has output similar to

# kitty-scrollback.nvim Kitten alias
action_alias kitty_scrollback_nvim kitten /Users/mike/gitrepos/kitty-scrollback.nvim/python/kitty_scrollback_nvim.py

that is put in your kitty.conf. Since this points to the path of kitty_scrollback_nvim.py on your filesystem, any updates to kitty-scrollback.nvim lua (nvim plugin) or python (kitty kitten) will be handled like normal from your plugin manager.

[steakhutzeee]

Thank you very much for all the info! Super helpful!