YES!! Thank you Guillaume!  I can't believe I didn't think of that.

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:48 PM Guillaume Gelin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just escape the inner double quotes with backslashes?
>
> Le lun. 4 mai 2020 à 23:27, Bearcat M. Şándor <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
>> Yes, and i discovered what's happening. The dtach command simply runs
>> whatever i give it and exits. So, doing  *kitty dtach -A
>> ~/.cache/dtach_vim_session ls *gives me a dir listing and terminates
>> immediately.
>>
>> I tried this originally with tmux but i couldn't figure out how to nest
>> the quotes:
>>  *Key([mod], "Return", lazy.spawn("kitty tmux -c "vim -c ':ter
>> ++curwin'"")),*
>> The above does not work.  It gives me a qtile error and i have to
>> cntrl-alt-backspace to get out, because you can't fix and refresh qtile.
>>
>> tmux -c "vim -c ':ter ++curwin'"  works at the command line but the
>> command following the *tmux -c* must be in double quotes, and the vim
>> command must be in single quotes.
>>
>> How do I nest that in qtile?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:32 PM Guillaume Gelin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you try with another terminal?
>>>
>>> Le lun. 4 mai 2020 à 22:29, Bearcat M. Şándor <[email protected]>
>>> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Oh, well I guess that would be helpful.  Kitty launches, and dies
>>>> immediately, so that's different than it was yesterday. Odd. I'll poke the
>>>> kitty, as it were and play with it some more.  Closing this for now, and I
>>>> apologies for the noise.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:17 PM Tycho Andersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:50:17PM -0600, Bearcat M. Şándor wrote:
>>>>> > Hey folks,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > First off, thank you for this awesomely hackable wm.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I'm trying to set up a hotkey combination to launch my terminal with
>>>>> a
>>>>> > detachable vim terminal session in it.  In my config.py I have:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > *Key([mod], "Return", lazy.spawn("kitty dtach -c
>>>>> ~/.cache/dtach_vim_session
>>>>> > vim -c ':ter ++curwin'")),*
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Yeah, that's a lot to unpack.  It's 3 parts:
>>>>> > *vim -c ':ter ++curwin'*  -- this fires up vim and opens up a vim
>>>>> terminal
>>>>> > in it
>>>>> > *dtach -c ~/.cache/dtach_vim_session*  -- starts up dtach and
>>>>> creates a
>>>>> > session file called dtach_vim_session in my ~/.cache directory
>>>>> > *kitty* -- fires up my kitty terminal and runs the above in it
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Now, if I open up kitty and enter *dtach -c
>>>>> ~/.cache/dtach_vim_session vim
>>>>> > -c ':ter ++curwin'* in it, it runs just fine.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Note that also if I have *Key([mod], "Return", lazy.spawn("kitty
>>>>> tmux -c
>>>>> > 'vim +term'")),*   that works just fine, so I don't think it's a
>>>>> kitty
>>>>> > issue.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> You didn't mention what doesn't work exactly, but my guess is that
>>>>> kitty is installed somewhere that isn't in the default $PATH,
>>>>> ~/.local/bin maybe.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tycho
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