Comment by jmkmay

3 months ago

Something not mentioned in the article which has changed the way I interact with git repos (and the reason I will never not use LazyVim until something better comes along) is just how well the system plays with tmux floating panes.

I have it so that anytime I press ctrl-g in a git repo, I open a floating tmux pane in my current working directory. This might sound "whatever", but it means I don't have to actually be inside neovim or "switch" to the LazyGit UI. It just overlays it on top of whatever I'm doing at the moment in the terminal.

Makes for the most fluid, streamlined git experience ever if you primarily live in the terminal.

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notpublic  3 months ago

Indeed! I just found out about tmux display-popup recently.

  # ~/.tmux.conf 
  bind-key C-g display-popup -E -d "#{pane_current_path}" -xC -yC -w 80% -h 75% "lazygit"

Then, in tmux:

  ctrl-b ctrl-g will open a popup window with lazygit
  q to quit

  • jmkmay  3 months ago

    Pretty much my config exactly. I make mine a bit bigger tho:

       bind-key -n C-g display-popup -E -w 90% -h 80% -T "LazyGit" -d "#{pane_current_path}" "lazygit"

witcher  3 months ago

(author of the blog post here)

Oh yes, I use lazygit as a separate binary (brew installed) from separate terminal shell all the time. No need for nvim!

Great to hear you can neatly configure similar UX (popup) with tmux!