Is there an API for a per-window statusbar?

[cpdean]

I'd like for there to be a way to render a string of text at the bottom of a given terminal window to provide per-window stats that may normally go in a prompt, kind of like this extension to provide contextual information in the tmux statusbar.

Is there a way to do that, either through kitty @ ... commands or through the API exposed to kitten plugins?

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control.html

But for an actual docked status bar it would need #2391

[cpdean]

So the idea would be to implement a status bar as a 1 character high window and populate it with content via send-text?

[kovidgoyal]

yes.

[cpdean]

thanks! i will try working on something in this direction.