Mark/detect shell prompt lines

[eraserhd]

Long time kitty user now, and it's awesome!

I want to somehow (preferably invisibly) mark where the shell prompts are so that I can send just the output of the last command to my editor. There are different use cases, but an after-the-fact quickfix is the most useful one.

IIRC, iTerm2 has this by sending an escape code in the shell prompt.

I could set up a regex to look for my prompt and change my prompt to have some character unlikely to occur naturally, but I'm curious if there's a better way.

EDIT: I just realized this has another benefit: Since I'm using my editor as my scrollback pager, I can map keys to jump to the previous/next prompt.

[kovidgoyal]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 08:55:45AM -0700, Jason Felice wrote: I just realized this has another benefit: Since I'm using my editor as my scrollback pager, I can map keys to jump to the previous/next prompt.

If you want your editor to work or this there's no way you can mark it invisibly, you would need to use a special character, just pick something from the unicode symbols list as your prompt char. And if you want to jump to it in kitty, use the kitty marks feature: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/marks.html