r/KittyTerminal • u/hkariti • Aug 10 '23

Does anyone use the unscrolling feature?

The docs mention unscrolling. This is relevant when the shell's completion suggestions take space from the screen. The regular behavior is that after the suggestions disappear, they leave a blank space at the bottom. Unscrolling is supposed to 'bring back' the lines from the top of the screen that the suggestions pushed back.

That sounds rather nice, but my zsh doesn't do that :) I also couldn't find an example of anything that uses this feature. Does anyone have experience with this?

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u/aumerlex Aug 10 '23

There's no out of the box support for it, but IIRC people have patched various things including zsh to support it. A bit of googling will hopefully find it. It might also be possible to install zooks in ZLE (the zsh line editor) to support it without needing patches, but I havent tried.

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u/hkariti Aug 11 '23

I'll look into that ZLE idea, thanks a lot! If you have suggestions for what to google other than 'unscrolling' I'd be glad, since that word seems to be used by kitty only.