Use e in lazygit to open nvim, make an edit, and return back to lazygit all in the same terminal session

[ramonvermeulen]

If you run lazygit you can make edit launch a nested nvim (subprocess) in the same terminal session, then return to LazyGit when you quit nvim. If you like to have a terminal-first workflow, this is quite handy because you don't need another GUI application for editing the file and can stay within the same terminal session.

In ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml:

  os:
    edit: 'nvim -- {{filename}}'
    editAtLine: 'nvim +{{line}} -- {{filename}}'
    editAtLineAndWait: 'nvim +{{line}} -- {{filename}}'
    editInTerminal: true

  promptToReturnFromSubprocess: false

  keybinding:
    universal:
      edit: e

Only figured this out after quite a long time of using lazygit, so I thought maybe it's worth sharing and can help someone.

Important

Currently this seems to be only supported for the edit keybinding and not yet for the open keybinding because an openInTerminal configuration option is missing, opened an issue at #5623 to hopefully support this as well.

[Liferenko]

is it possible to edit the file in the our own nvim, not vanilla one (without any LSP, highlights and other whistles)?

[ramonvermeulen]

Probably yes, I think any terminal editor should work fine.