Is there a way to get Lazygit to use the hosting neovim for the commit editor?

[tristan957]

It seems to open an embedded Neovim terminal and launch Neovim, but Neovim is available already since that is what Lazygit is running in. When editing a file, this situation works perfectly, but the commit editor does not, unfortunately.

[tristan957]

I tried playing with GIT_EDITOR in the snacks lazygit.env config, but it must either not work or I don't know the right incantation.

[xian-wen]

Have you set the EDITOR=nvim in your shell config file (.bashrc, .zshrc, .config/fish/config.fish etc.)? If yes, I think the commit editor will be Neovim. Below is mine:

[tristan957]

Yes but you're running neovim in neovim which is what I'm referring to. It would be better to use the same neovim which launched lazygit

[xian-wen]

Duplicate with #304. As Folke said, this is out of scope.

[tristan957]

Should we bring this up with lazygit upstream?

[xian-wen]

Maybe. Maybe this is also related to the nvim-remote preset?