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Add more text roles and links. Fix typos. Adjust the default shortcut order in overview. Notes on the impact of kitty-open.desktop on the default open apps. Document KITTY_DEVELOP_FROM in glossary. Add Python type hints to the watcher example. Mention clone-in-kitty in launch --copy-env. Fix remote control ls example does not work, by escaping the backslash.
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Query terminal
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This kitten is used to query |kitty| from terminal programs about version, values
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of various runtime options controlling its features, etc.
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The querying is done using the (*semi*) standard XTGETTCAP escape sequence
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pioneered by xterm, so it works over SSH as well. The downside is that it is
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slow, since it requires a roundtrip to the terminal emulator and back.
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If you want to do some of the same querying in your terminal program without
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depending on the kitten, you can do so, by processing the same escape codes.
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Search `this page <https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html>`__
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for *XTGETTCAP* to see the syntax for the escape code and read the source of
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this kitten to find the values of the keys for the various queries.
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.. include:: ../generated/cli-kitten-query_terminal.rst
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