When dropping URLs/files onto kitty at a shell prompt insert them appropriately quoted and space separated

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ Detailed list of changes
 - Fix :ac:`show_last_command_output` not working when the output is stored
   partially in the scrollback pager history buffer (:iss:`4435`)
 
+- When dropping URLs/files onto kitty at a shell prompt insert them appropriately quoted and space
+  separated (:iss:`4734`)
+
 - Improve CWD detection when there are multiple foreground processes in the TTY process group
 
 - A new option :opt:`narrow_symbols` to turn off opportunistic wide rendering of private use codepoints

kitty/boss.py

@@ -1221,7 +1221,12 @@ class Boss:
             if w is not None:
                 text = data.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
                 if mime == 'text/uri-list':
-                    text = '\n'.join(parse_uri_list(text))
+                    urls = parse_uri_list(text)
+                    if w.at_prompt:
+                        import shlex
+                        text = ' '.join(map(shlex.quote, urls))
+                    else:
+                        text = '\n'.join(urls)
                 w.paste(text)
 
     @ac('win', 'Focus the nth OS window')

kitty/window.py

@@ -520,9 +520,13 @@ class Window:
     def current_colors(self) -> Dict[str, Optional[int]]:
         return self.screen.color_profile.as_dict()
 
+    @property
+    def at_prompt(self) -> bool:
+        return self.screen.cursor_at_prompt()
+
     @property
     def has_running_program(self) -> bool:
-        return not self.screen.cursor_at_prompt()
+        return not self.at_prompt
 
     def matches(self, field: str, pat: MatchPatternType) -> bool:
         if not pat: