question: how to use with lazygit?

[jsjoeio]

i feel silly asking this lol but if i use lazygit as my main TUI for git operations, how can i use hunk with it?

i thought setting it globally via:

git -c core.pager="hunk pager" diff

would do it but no dice.

[cuong0993]

Me too. LLMs and GH searching did not help.

[cuong0993]

I think this is a bug.

❯ git --no-pager diff | hunk pager

did not return and hang the terminal

using delta, the command returned

[elianiva]

I think the proper solution here is to add a non-interactive mode since pager requires a TTY environment. Based on some of my quick research while debugging for my use case, the reason why delta, difft, and other works is because they support non-interactive mode (doesn't require TTY). They simply outputs text as opposed to taking control of everything, which is why these external tools can support them, and setting --no-pager still outputs them normally because they run on a non-interactive mode (non-pager mode).

So, instead of using alternate screen, we'd need a render-everything-once and dump them to stdout so external program can handle the paging by themselves.

I have a prototype working while playing around with this, currently it just bypasses the opentui renderer and outputs plain ANSI to stdout. Will try looking around on how to make opentui stuff works this way.

[benvinegar]

@elianiva I started doing exactly this.

Would you all mind trying out #271? Here's what it looks like for me: