This is a custom processor for the hints kitten in the kitty terminal emulator which allows you to send mouse click events to the program running in the terminal emulator.

Place the hints_mouse_click.py file in the same directory as kitty.conf.

If you want to match against emojis, you have to install the emoji package.

Map a key to launch the hints kitten with this processor. E.g. for using kitty_mod+y to right click on emojis add this to kitty.conf:

map kitty_mod+y kitten hints --type emoji --customize-processing hints_mouse_click.py right

This is used just like the standard hints kitten, except for these differences:

• You can specify the mouse button you want to use as the last argument. This can be left, middle, right, scroll_up, scroll_down, scroll_left, scroll_right, back or forward. Defaults to left if not specified.
• The --type option supports emoji and emoji_char_and_name in addition to the standard types. emoji will match emoji characters. emoji_char_and_name will in addition match the regex :[a-z0-9_+-]+: which is typically how emojis are represented by name in ascii. These two types force --minimum-match-length to 1 to be able to match emojis.