kak-shell: Add a wait_for_session function

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/kak-shell b/bin/kak-shell
index fc44687..a38b5f4 100755
--- a/bin/kak-shell
+++ b/bin/kak-shell
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ connect() {
   session=$1
   shift
   setsid kak -s "$session" -d < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &
+  wait_for_session "$session"
   kak -c "$session" -e "connect-detach $@"
   sh connect.sh
 }
@@ -29,6 +30,16 @@ prompt_kakoune_session() {
   text=$kak_session
 }
 
+wait_for_session() {
+  session=$1
+
+  # Wait for session
+  # Grep in quiet mode with fixed strings and whole line switches
+  while ! kak -l | grep -q -F -x "$session"; do
+    continue
+  done
+}
+
 # Utility functions ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 is_number() {