gitui.nvim

Gitui in your Neovim as terminal window.

How it's different from the original?

Original aspeddro/gitui.nvim plugin had .open() method which would open gitui interface as terminal window, but would not provide a simple way to toggle it's visibility and switch between nvim and gitui back & forth.

This implementation deprecates .open() method and replaces it with .toggle() which hides current gitui window and reuses created buffer between invocations, instead of re-creating it every time from scratch (this let's preserve gitui interface state between toggles) and .terminate() method which would gracefully remove reusable buffer and window.

Because of it, all previosly selected items in different tabs, collapsed/expanded folders, searches, etc. keep their state.

gitui_toggle_demo.mov

Prerequisites

• Neovim >= 0.5.0
• Gitui

Installation

Using packer.nvim:

use 'dev99problems/gitui.nvim'

Setup

require("gitui").setup()

Configuration (optional)

Following are the default config for the setup(). If you want to override, just modify the option that you want then it will be merged with the default config, like

require('gitui').setup({
  window = {
    options = {
      width = 95,
      height = 100,
      border = 'rounded'
    }
  },
})

Default config

{
  -- Command Options
  command = {
    -- Enable :Gitui command
    -- @type: bool
    enable = true,
  },
  -- Path to binary
  -- @type: string
  binary = "gitui",
  -- Argumens to gitui
  -- @type: table of string
  args = {},
  -- WIndow Options
  window = {
    options = {
      -- Width window in %
      -- @type: number
      width = 90,
      -- Height window in %
      -- @type: number
      height = 80,
      -- Border Style
      -- Enum: "none", "single", "rounded", "solid" or "shadow"
      -- @type: string
      border = "rounded",
    },
  },
}

Lua API

require("gitui").toggle() -- toggles gitui window
-- and
require("gitui").terminate() -- removes cached buffer & window objects, usually should not be used manually

Hotkeys

If you're using .lua files for nvim configurations, the possible hotkeys can be set like

-- ## gitui
keymap("n", "gui", ":lua require('gitui').toggle()<CR>", opts)
keymap("t", "gui", "<C-\\><C-n>:lua require('gitui').toggle()<CR>", opts)

Important this plugin does not set any hotkeys by default, so you can use provided example or set your own instead of gui, but please keep in mind setting hotkey for at least normal and terminal modes to be able to show & hide gitui properly.