How do you pass arguments into the Snacks terminal?

[nickjj]

I'm using LazyVim and am trying out GitUI.

GitUI has documentation stating you can run gitui -t mytheme.ron to supply a custom theme.

I tried all sorts of syntax combos like Snacks.terminal({ "gitui", "-t", "tokyonight_moon.ron" }) but the custom theme never gets applied. If you name the file theme.ron then you don't need to pass in -t and that works, but I'd like to explicitly pass in the file name so I can have more than 1 theme on disk and then configure Neovim to pick it based on my active theme.

Alternatively I can probably use symlinks to solve my problem but still, it will be helpful to know how to do it without that if possible.

Thanks!

[dpetka2001]

Try the following :lua Snacks.terminal({ "gitui", "-t", "tokyonight_moon.ron" }, { cwd = LazyVim.root.get() }) or just change the mapping to

return {
	"williamboman/mason.nvim",
	keys = {
		{
			"<leader>gg",
			function()
				Snacks.terminal({ "gitui", "-t", "tokyonight_moon.ron" }, { cwd = LazyVim.root.get() })
			end,
			desc = "GitUi (Root Dir)",
		},
	},
}

You have to do it in the mason.nvim plugin spec, because that's where the default keymap for gitui is configured in LazyVim assuming that you enabled the util.gitui Extra from :LazyExtras command.

[nickjj]

Hi,

Yep I enabled util.gitui through extras so gitui was installed through Mason and the gitui binary is within's Mason path.

I'm not really sure what happened because yesterday I went here https://github.com/LazyVim/LazyVim/blob/main/lua/lazyvim/plugins/extras/util/gitui.lua, copied that to ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/mason.lua and made the same modification. The custom theme reference didn't get picked up but I know the file was live because if I put invalid syntax in the terminal command Lua threw an error.

I took your snippet and added a 2nd binding for <leader>gG and it all works today. I can't even undo the changes to see what changed because yesterday I deleted the old mason.lua file.

I confirmed it works by renaming theme.ron to tokyonight_moon.ron so it's not using the default file name.

Likewise if I launch :lua Snacks.terminal({ "gitui", "-t", "tokyonight_moon.ron" }, { cwd = LazyVim.root.get() }) it's the same result. Thanks for the tip to be able to use :lua to launch code like this without a keymap for testing.

[drowning-cat]

Did you put your theme in ~/.config/gitui/tokyonight_moon.ron?

[nickjj]

Yep, it's all working now, check the other reply's comment. Thanks.