--to An address for the kitty instance to control. Corresponds to the address given to the kitty
instance via the --listen-onoptionorthelisten_onsettinginkitty.conf.Ifnotspecified,theenvironmentvariableKITTY_LISTEN_ONischecked.Ifthatisalsonotfound,messagesaresenttothecontrollingterminalforthisprocess,i.e.theywillonlyworkifthisprocessisrunwithinakittywindow.--password
A password to use when contacting kitty. This will cause kitty to ask the user for permission to
perform the specified action, unless the password has been accepted before or is pre-configured in
kitty.conf.Touseablankpasswordspecify--use-passwordasalways.--password-file[=rc-pass]
A file from which to read the password. Trailing whitespace is ignored. Relative paths are
resolved from the kitty configuration directory. Use - to read from STDIN. Use fd:num to read from
the file descriptor num. Used if no --passwordissupplied.Defaultstocheckingfortherc-passfileinthekittyconfigurationdirectory.--password-env[=KITTY_RC_PASSWORD]
The name of an environment variable to read the password from. Used if no --password-fileissupplied.DefaultstocheckingtheenvironmentvariableKITTY_RC_PASSWORD.--use-password[=if-available]
If no password is available, kitty will usually just send the remote control command without a
password. This option can be used to force it to always or never use the supplied password. If set
to always and no password is provided, the blank password is used.
Choices: if-available, always, never
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