lazygit: open a file straight from the diff

I was looking at a file’s diff in lazygit and wanted to fix something in it. To do that I’d switch to VS Code and go find the same file again.

Turns out I don’t have to. Hitting e on the file in lazygit opens it right in my editor.

lazygit needs to know which editor that is. One line in my ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml:

os:  editPreset: "vscode"

Now e opens the file in VS Code, the same one I was looking at, no hunting for it.

vscode is one of many presets. I could swap it for vim, zed, sublime, or any of the others listed in the lazygit docs.

lazygit often guesses the editor on its own, from git config core.editor or $EDITOR. I set editPreset anyway, so the choice is explicit.

P.S. lazygit even runs on Windows, which is where I first set this up.

P.P.S. lazygit is the work of one person, Jesse Duffield, and it’s amazing. If you can afford to back open source, he’s a great one to sponsor.