`Esc` closes the floating buffer instead of interacting with LazyGit and cancel the operation

[ulyssessouza]

Description

To Reproduce

Here are the steps to reproduce the behavior using MINRC: Ps: Couldn't run with MINRC...

1. Press Esc, lg to open LazyGit in a floating window/buffer
2. Tab to browse to Local Branches
3. Enter to select a branch to see the commits
4. Press Esc to go back (Cancel)

Expected behavior

What is expected to happen: When pressing Esc that should make the Local Branches section to go back.

But what is happening is that the floating window just closes. This avoids me to cherrypick a commit from a branch and paste it to another

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• nvim --version:

  v0.9.5

• alacritty --version

  alacritty 0.12.2

[ckt114]

Having the same issue. Escape should not close the floating window. Only q should.

[ckt114]

Sovled this issue by adding this key binding.

vim.keymap.del("t", "<esc>")

[amritk]

I tried something like this, but it doesn't pass escape down to lazygit

map("t", "<ESC>", function()
    local win = vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()
    -- Do not close lazygit on escape
    if not string.find(vim.api.nvim_buf_get_name(0), "lazygit") then
        vim.api.nvim_win_close(win, true)
    end
end, { desc = "Terminal Close term in terminal mode" })

does anyone know how to pass the escape key to lazygit in this case?

[SimonBrandner]

I ended up doing this FWIW: https://github.com/SimonBrandner/dotfiles/commit/a29de2c408d6157760bbfe815a8b49bcb7f8f230

[collinvandyck]

Thanks for posting the examples. I learned a lot reading them and then writing my own autocommand to prevent the escape key from bringing me out of the terminal mode. I was able to get it, with some help from ai, to send esc to lazygit, allowing me to use esc like i normally would outside of neovim

[kdheepak]

I'd be open to adding such an autocmd to the floating window terminal buffer in this plugin, enabled by default but with an option to not add the autocmd. Thoughts?

[collinvandyck]

@kdheepak i think that would be helpful for newbies like me that might not know how to go about adding the workaround. thank you 👍

[enheit]

I have the same issue. I use Neovim and Lazygit. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Update: I found the root cause of the problem. In this https://github.com/kdheepak/lazygit.nvim/issues/78#issuecomment-1416894837, I learned that a potential key binding might prevent the Esc key from working as expected. In my case, I had:

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("t", "<esc><esc>", "<c-\\><c-n>", { desc = "Enter Normal Mode" })

After removing this binding, all Lazygit bindings started working as expected.