lazygit not open file in nvim

[fecet]

Press e at some lazygit file, neovim will be opened inside lazygit instead open it in original neovim like ranger

[raulbethencourt]

Same problem, but with xplr.

[niveK77pur]

vim-floaterm includes its own little binary/script which can be run from within a terminal to open said files into the current neovim instance. I see lazygit seems to open files using the $EDITOR (if set). I mention the vim-floaterm binary, because in this case we could set the EDITOR=floaterm and it will trick lazygit into opening the file into the current vim instance.

HOWEVER, I also found this section in the lazygit docs, which mentions nvim-remote. It allows to open the files in the current neovim instance as well, without intervention by this plugin here. I just gave it a try and it doesn't exactly work either (for me at least, not sure if my setup is problematic). When I launch :terminal and then open lazygit therein, then it opens (e) the file within my current neovim instance. However, when I open lazygit via this plugin it opens a nested neovim instance. I also had to alias my vim to nvr as this lazygit setting made it look for vim instead of nvr for some reason.

If anyone is interested, I'd be curious to know if you get this nvim-remote thing working for lazygit (maybe something is wrong in my setup)? If it does then that's great, this plugins seems to have gone stale for a year now.

[piersolenski]

Same for GitUI