Favorite Shell Aliases for Kittens?

[danrneal]

I've been diving deeper into Kitty's features recently. Kittens are awesome!

I have seen in a few videos where Kovid has defined aliases for many of these kittens, and I'm wondering if he would be willing to share his personal list of aliases for kittens or add-ons?

@kovidgoyal if you are willing to share your setup, I'd love to see what the creator's workflow looks like.

And if anyone else in the community has found some especially helpful aliases for kitty, feel free to add those here too!

[kovidgoyal]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Daniel R. Neal wrote: I've been diving deeper into Kitty's features recently. Kittens are awesome! I have seen in a few videos where Kovid has defined aliases for many of these kittens, and I'm wondering if he would be willing to share his personal list of aliases for kittens or add-ons? @kovidgoyal if you are willing to share your setup, I'd love to see what the creator's workflow looks like.

I am not going to share my entire setup, but for kittens, there are a few aliases I use: 1) k@ - alias for kitten @ 2) icat alias for kitten icat 3) kt alias for kitten 4) kdiff alias for kitten diff 5) kf alias for kitten choose-files 6) k aliased to git difftool -d --no-symlinks (this is used with the diff kitten configures as the diff tool 7) K aliased to git difftool -d --cached --no-symlinks 6 and 7 are there because I use git diff with the diff kitten, *a lot*. I also have various aliases for kitty invocation that I use when developing/debugging kitty that wont be useful to anyone else.

[danrneal]

Do you use any aliases for `kitten clipboard` or `kitten clipboard --get-clipboard`?

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On Fri, Jan 2, 2026, 7:25 PM Kovid Goyal ***@***.***> wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Daniel R. Neal wrote: > I've been diving deeper into Kitty's features recently. Kittens are awesome! > > I have seen in a few videos where Kovid has defined aliases for many of these kittens, and I'm wondering if he would be willing to share his personal list of aliases for kittens or add-ons? > > @kovidgoyal if you are willing to share your setup, I'd love to see what the creator's workflow looks like. I am not going to share my entire setup, but for kittens, there are a few aliases I use: 1) k@ - alias for kitten @ 2) icat alias for kitten icat 3) kt alias for kitten 4) kdiff alias for kitten diff 5) kf alias for kitten choose-files 6) k aliased to git difftool -d --no-symlinks (this is used with the diff kitten configures as the diff tool 7) K aliased to git difftool -d --cached --no-symlinks 6 and 7 are there because I use git diff with the diff kitten, *a lot*. I also have various aliases for kitty invocation that I use when developing/debugging kitty that wont be useful to anyone else. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#9351 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIJUZIXCJSCQKUFR6WIYMPL4E4ZEPAVCNFSM6AAAAACQRUXSWCVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTKMZZGQ4TSNA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kovidgoyal]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 10:24:32PM -0800, Daniel R. Neal wrote: Do you use any aliases for `kitten clipboard` or `kitten clipboard --get-clipboard`?

No, I dont frequently use that as most TUI software I use has well integrated clipboard support already. Oh and I forgot a couple kssh aliased to kitten ssh vcat aliased to mpv --profile=sw-fast --vo=kitty --vo-kitty-use-shm=yes --really-quiet