jesseduffield.lazygit/pkg/gui
Stefan Haller aebf495dce Scroll the selection into view by default
Ever since scrolling the selection into view became opt-in, we have been
fixing the same class of regression by hand, five times so far: a
controller moves the selection somewhere new, doesn't say that it wants
the view to follow, and the selection ends up off screen. The decision
needs facts from two places — whether the selection went somewhere new is
known to the list, whether the scroll position is the caller's to manage
is known to the caller — and asking every caller for both is what keeps
going wrong. The callers that get it wrong are usually not even the ones
that moved the selection: they are pass-throughs like postRefreshUpdate,
which can't know what a refresh did to the selection.

So default to scrolling, and let the two callers that maintain the scroll
position themselves say so.

The one case where scrolling is always wrong is a refresh that no user
action is behind: a background poll, or a reload of state on window
focus, after a subprocess, or after a repo switch. Those must leave the
viewport wherever the user last scrolled it to — that is what made the
scrolling opt-in in the first place. Both are already marked in
RefreshOptions, so the refresh can decide it once, centrally, instead of
each caller judging it.

A user action that ends in a foreground refresh does now yank the view
back to the selection if the user had scrolled away from it. That's a
behaviour change, and there may be actions where it turns out to be
unwelcome; those we can fix individually, and it beats the ones that
don't scroll today.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
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context Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
controllers Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
filetree Make the conflict marker size a parameter of our marker matching 2026-08-08 12:43:42 +02:00
mergeconflicts Recognize conflict markers that have no label 2026-08-08 12:43:42 +02:00
modes Make Commit.Hash a getter for an unexported hash field 2025-04-29 14:57:15 +02:00
patch_exploring Rework the custom pager config (rename to diff renderer) 2026-07-31 08:42:51 +02:00
popup Decouple hiding the working tree state from blocking input 2026-08-05 17:29:20 +02:00
presentation Show a Github PR's combined checks state in branches list and main view 2026-08-02 13:06:21 +02:00
services/custom_commands Remove the RefreshMode field 2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
status Render the app status in a single background render loop 2026-07-17 15:55:01 +02:00
style Modernize all codes 2025-11-15 10:46:23 +01:00
types Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
background.go Let OnUIThreadAndWait's error be about the wait, not about f 2026-08-12 11:04:53 +02:00
command_log_panel.go Adapt links 2026-07-31 08:42:51 +02:00
context.go Bump gocui (and tcell) 2025-12-23 16:49:16 +01:00
context_config.go Remove some unused code 2025-07-08 15:14:45 +02:00
controllers.go Redesign the 'w' worktree-creation flow 2026-07-03 18:53:05 +02:00
dummies.go Move NewDummyCommon to pkg/common 2025-05-06 09:43:26 +02:00
editors.go Capture suggestions inputs on the UI thread 2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
extras_panel.go Rename Key to Keys in Binding, KeybindingsOpts, and MenuItem 2026-05-25 15:18:18 +02:00
global_handlers.go Read lines based on scroll position instead of a fixed per-notch delta 2026-07-09 09:32:35 +02:00
gui.go Remember how to get back to a repo we entered a submodule from 2026-08-08 11:15:01 +02:00
gui_common.go Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
gui_driver.go Add a test that a background refresh keeps the scroll position 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
information_panel.go Rename ModeStatus.Description to InfoLabel 2025-08-14 17:59:38 +02:00
keybindings.go Fold remaining alt bindings into their main fields 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
layout.go Don't show a transient view whose window is not part of the layout 2026-07-17 12:07:24 +02:00
main_panels.go Run moveMainContextPairToTop before queueing main-view tasks 2026-07-02 17:32:01 +02:00
menu_panel.go Fold remaining alt bindings into their main fields 2026-05-25 15:32:47 +02:00
options_map.go Cleanup: filter out empty keybindings earlier 2026-05-28 19:26:43 +02:00
pty.go Give task commands a Terminate method instead of exposing their process 2026-08-04 07:03:27 +02:00
pty_test.go Prevent stale index.lock files from diffs rendered through a pty on Windows 2026-08-04 06:53:53 +02:00
recent_repos_panel.go Remove unused field gui.IsNewRepo 2024-12-01 10:44:26 +01:00
side_panels.go Assign the transient contexts' initial windows from the side panel config 2026-07-17 12:07:24 +02:00
side_panels_test.go Assign the transient contexts' initial windows from the side panel config 2026-07-17 12:07:24 +02:00
tasks_adapter.go Let OnUIThreadAndWait's error be about the wait, not about f 2026-08-12 11:04:53 +02:00
tasks_adapter_test.go Never hand NewCmdTask a nil reader when a command fails to start 2026-07-23 17:31:26 +02:00
test_mode.go Dump goroutine stacks when the test watchdog fires 2026-07-20 14:26:25 +02:00
test_timeout_norace.go Scale the integration test watchdog up under the race detector 2026-07-20 14:26:25 +02:00
test_timeout_race.go Scale the integration test watchdog up under the race detector 2026-07-20 14:26:25 +02:00
view_helpers.go Scroll the selection into view by default 2026-08-14 08:04:13 +02:00
views.go Clear tab strips on views that are no longer tabs 2026-06-23 14:15:18 +02:00