Keyboard Shortcut help in 0.62.2

[schallm]

Was the ? keyboard shortcut removed that shows current keyboard shortcuts?

https://lazygit.dev/keybindings/

[stefanhaller]

No it wasn't; why do you think it was?

[schallm]

? is gone from the status line:

And nothing happens when I hit the question mark. I'm running on Windows 11 if that matters.

[stefanhaller]

Are you one of those users who copied the entire default config into their config file? That would explain it; we used to have two keybindings "optionMenu" (bound to nothing) and "optionMenu-alt1" (bound to "?"), and we recently changed this to remove "optionMenu-alt1" and instead bind "optionMenu" to "?". Now, if your config file still contains the old bindings, then "optionMenu" is unset for you. I didn't realise this when I made the change.

This is one of several reasons why I recommend against copying the entire default config into your config file. It's best to set only those configs that you want to change, and omit everything else.

To fix this issue without making other changes to your config file, remove the optionMenu: <disabled> entry from your config file and you should be good.

[schallm]

I am "one of those users"! I like to know what knobs I can tweak! I commented everything quick and help is back. Thanks so much for the quick response. Absolutely love this tool and use it everyday.

[stefanhaller]

I like to know what knobs I can tweak!

For that, just consult the docs. It's really not a good idea to copy the entire default config into your config file, for several reasons:

• it makes you susceptible to problems like the one we just saw
• your config file is just a snapshot of the configs at some old version, it won't get updated when we add more configs
• sometimes we change defaults, e.g. when we decide that a different default is really better for most people. You won't get the benefit of that because you forcibly pinned yours to the old defaults.

[schallm]

Will do. Thanks again for your help.