From 4f56cce727adf4a390a676f9b36eade65f0bbc4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:29:34 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix client eating up send-text when seding to same window

---
 kitty/remote_control.py | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kitty/remote_control.py b/kitty/remote_control.py
index 53a157b58..d348da945 100644
--- a/kitty/remote_control.py
+++ b/kitty/remote_control.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from .constants import appname, version
 from .utils import read_with_timeout
 
 
-def cmd(short_desc, desc=None, options_spec=None):
+def cmd(short_desc, desc=None, options_spec=None, no_response=False):
 
     def w(func):
         func.short_desc = short_desc
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ def cmd(short_desc, desc=None, options_spec=None):
         func.options_spec = options_spec
         func.is_cmd = True
         func.impl = lambda: globals()[func.__name__[4:]]
+        func.no_response = no_response
         return func
     return w
 
@@ -51,7 +52,8 @@ def ls(boss, window):
 
 
 @cmd(
-    'Send arbitrary text to the specified window'
+    'Send arbitrary text to the specified window',
+    no_response=True
 )
 def cmd_send_text(global_opts, opts, args):
     return {'text': ' '.join(args)}
@@ -70,13 +72,15 @@ def handle_cmd(boss, window, cmd):
     v = cmd['version']
     if tuple(v)[:2] > version[:2]:
         return {'ok': False, 'error': 'The kitty client you are using to send remote commands is newer than this kitty instance. This is not supported.'}
-    func = partial(cmap[cmd['cmd']].impl(), boss, window)
+    c = cmap[cmd['cmd']]
+    func = partial(c.impl(), boss, window)
     payload = cmd.get('payload')
     ans = func() if payload is None else func(payload)
     response = {'ok': True}
     if ans is not None:
         response['data'] = ans
-    return response
+    if not c.no_response:
+        return response
 
 
 global_options_spec = partial('''\
@@ -84,12 +88,14 @@ global_options_spec = partial('''\
 '''.format, appname=appname)
 
 
-def read_from_stdin(send):
+def read_from_stdin(send, no_response):
     send = ('@kitty-cmd' + json.dumps(send)).encode('ascii')
     if not sys.stdout.isatty():
         raise SystemExit('stdout is not a terminal')
     sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'\x1bP' + send + b'\x1b\\')
     sys.stdout.flush()
+    if no_response:
+        return {'ok': True}
 
     received = b''
     dcs = re.compile(br'\x1bP@kitty-cmd([^\x1b]+)\x1b\\')
@@ -137,7 +143,7 @@ def main(args):
     }
     if payload is not None:
         send['payload'] = payload
-    response = read_from_stdin(send)
+    response = read_from_stdin(send, func.no_response)
     if not response.get('ok'):
         if response.get('tb'):
             print(response['tb'], file=sys.stderr)