Allow overriding the platform used for default keybindings - #5671
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I am sure - I just tried it out side of the dev container, directly on my host and it doesn't do it. It's probably some keyboard emulation from vscode. It was a vscode terminal window of a dev container, so there's quite a few layers. What I found odd is that with the environment variable one of the other stopped working. |
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@hanoii Ok, thanks for checking. I suppose there's nothing more to do here then, except from merging the PR? |
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A handful of default keybindings differ by platform (e.g. word-wise cursor movement in text inputs uses alt on macOS but ctrl elsewhere). Lazygit chooses these based on the OS it runs on, but that's the wrong signal when the OS isn't where the user is actually typing: someone running lazygit in a Linux container that they access over ssh from a Mac gets the Linux bindings, when they'd rather have the Mac ones. Remapping each binding by hand via config is tedious, so add a single LAZYGIT_KEYBINDING_PLATFORM override. An unrecognized value falls back to the real OS rather than to the non-darwin default bindings, since the latter would be an arbitrary choice.
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A handful of default keybindings differ by platform (e.g. word-wise cursor movement in text inputs uses alt on macOS but ctrl elsewhere). Lazygit chooses these based on the OS it runs on, but that's the wrong signal when the OS isn't where the user is actually typing: someone running lazygit in a Linux container that they access over ssh from a Mac gets the Linux bindings, when they'd rather have the Mac ones. Remapping each binding by hand via config is tedious, so add a single LAZYGIT_KEYBINDING_PLATFORM override.
Closes #5668.