How to change Lazygit default keybind I want to change ctrl+h to be ctrl+w and keep ctrl+w

[gitdexgit]

I try to make ctrl+h delete a whole word in lazyvim. How can I do it? I do not want to change the terminal default keybinds. When I hit ctrl+h or ctrl+backpace it is sending ^H in my st terminal (simple terminal).

Thanks.

[charles-benedito]

hey, that one is just a keybinding in the config. under keybinding: universal: theres backspaceWord: <ctrl+backspace>, and since st sends ^H for that, set it to <c-h> instead and lazygit will delete the word on ctrl+h without touching the terminal

same block has forwardDeleteWord and moveWordLeft/Right if u want the rest. its all in docs/Config.md in the repo. lmk if st still swallows it

[gitdexgit]

keybinding:
  universal:
    backspaceWord:
      - '<c-h>'
      - '<c-w>'
      - '<ctrl+backspace>'

Like this? in ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml ?

Doesn't work.

[stefanhaller]

Works for me in Ghostty.

If it doesn't work for you, then that probably means that st doesn't support the kitty keyboard protocol. I didn't check. Any chance that you can switch to a more capable terminal?

[efim0v]

In st, lazygit can't tell Ctrl+H apart from Backspace, so a lazygit keybinding can't do this. You can get word delete on Ctrl+Backspace instead, without touching Ctrl+H, by making st send ^W for it. Add this as the first XK_BackSpace line in key[] in your config.h and rebuild st:

{ XK_BackSpace,     ControlMask,    "\027",          0,    0},

\027 is ^W, the same byte Ctrl+W sends, and lazygit's text fields already delete a word on that (edit.go#L37-L39), so you don't need any backspaceWord config. st has no Ctrl+Backspace entry by default (it just falls through to ^H), so nothing else changes: Backspace and Ctrl+H send what they sent before. ^W deletes a word in bash, zsh and Vim's insert mode too.

Why your config does nothing: st sends 0x08 (^H) for both Ctrl+H and Ctrl+Backspace, and 0x7f for Backspace (config.def.h#l351). lazygit's terminal library, tcell, reads both bytes as plain Backspace (input.go#L599-L600), so <c-h> and <ctrl+backspace> never match and the field deletes one character (edit.go#L43-L46). Binding <backspace> would make every Backspace delete a word. In Ghostty it works because lazygit turns on the kitty keyboard protocol there, and Ctrl+H then arrives as a key of its own (ESC[104;5u). st doesn't support that protocol, and tcell has a note saying so (tscreen.go#L1495-L1499).

[gitdexgit]

I'll just stick to defaults... I'll just use git on cli and just install emacs and use magit. Screw this lazygit... well it's still useful as is.. .but man. it's annoying