David-Else / kitty-terminal-project-launcher

Easily open and manage your local coding projects with Kitty terminal

Kitty Terminal Project Launcher

Easily open and manage your local coding projects inside kitty terminal.

Features:

• Fuzzy search for all or just recent projects using fzf.
• Open projects with your default terminal editor.
• Open preconfigured sets of named windows for different project types.
• Automatic closing of windows when exiting your editor.
• Create new project folders based on your chosen directory structure

Configuration

1. Edit the script to point to your project folders (maxdepth is hard coded to 2):

level_1_dir="$HOME/Documents/"
level_2_dirs=("$level_1_dir"/business "$level_1_dir"/personal "$level_1_dir"/apps-sites)

├── Documents
│   ├── apps-sites
│   │   └── rust              < maxdepth 2 searches for projects below
│   │       ├── project-1
│   │       └── project-2
│   ├── business
│   │   └── documents         <
│   │       └── project-3
│   └── personal
│       └── blog              <

If you created projects as above the search results would be:

- project-1
- project-2
- project-3

2. Decide on which terminal windows to open based on which files or directories are in the project root.

├── Documents
│   ├── apps-sites
│   │   └── rust
│   │       └── project-1
│   │           ├── src
│   │           │   ├── modules
│   │           │   │   ├── model.js
│   │           │   │   └── view.js
│   │           │   └── main.js
│   │           ├── package.json    < detects JS/TS in project root
│   │           ├── README.md
│   │           └── .gitignore

For example, to open an additional terminal window for Rust and JS/TS projects the included default is:

    if [ -f "Cargo.toml" ] || [ -f "package.json" ]; then
        kitty @ launch --title "Terminal:$project_name" --keep-focus --cwd="$selected_dir"
    fi

Make sure to close them again at the end of the script:

kitty @ close-window --match title:^"Terminal:$project_name" --ignore-no-match

3. To achieve the recommended workflow, add the following to your kitty.conf file:

enabled_layouts       stack,tall

Now you can easily toggle each window between full screen and split screen with ctrl+shift l

If you find it easier to use just ctrl than ctrl+shift then the following remapping is recommended:

map ctrl+t launch --cwd=current --type=tab
map ctrl+enter launch --cwd=current
map ctrl+1 first_window
map ctrl+2 second_window
map ctrl+3 third_window
map ctrl+4 fourth_window
map ctrl+5 fifth_window
map ctrl+6 sixth_window
map ctrl+] next_window
map ctrl+[ previous_window

Usage:

1. Copy the ep script into your $PATH.
2. Run the command ep in your terminal.
3. Follow the prompts to search and open your desired project or create a new project folder. A README.md file is placed inside new folders by default.
4. Start coding in your preconfigured and organized workspace.
5. Quit using your editor to close the other windows.

Requirements:

• Kitty terminal.
• fzf.

Optional requirements:

• Lazygit.

Example Helix config for Rust:

[keys.normal.space]
c = { r = ":sh kitty @ send-text --match 'title:^Terminal' cargo run \\\\n", t = ":sh kitty @ send-text --match 'title:^Terminal' 'clear \\ncargo test \\n'" }