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[Feature Request] Keybindings relative to the current cursor on the bottom line

Open shunia opened this issue 3 weeks ago • 1 comments

I think it will be really nice to have this feature exactly like lazygit implemented.

Everytime I try a new app the keybindings are my bigest confusion and I believe lazygit is the best one on handling this problem in recent products. I can see there are enough space in the bottom line to show the useful keybindings when it comes to different cursor focus. The scenarios I can think of are:

  • when editing code, when cursor focus on word, show keybindings for refactor, find reference, goto definition
  • when exploring file tree, show keybindings for rename, move file to, copy path
  • when exploring the menu, show open settings
  • mark different functional area with a simple keybinding to switch between them, lazygit did this with simple number keys which is extremely convenient

I know fresh tries to be mouse friendly, but still I believe that this feature could help a lot since most of the time we are editing code rather than click around, and as we always need to learn the keybindings for new apps.

shunia avatar Dec 05 '25 01:12 shunia

I like the idea and it harks back to WordPerfect 5.1 days and similar UX of the late 80s / early 90s.

The reason I haven't done it so far is it does make the UI more cluttered and off-putting to many people, and command palette is a kind of escape hatch for not knowing how to use the bindings. I can try to play around with this to see if it can be less intrusive

sinelaw avatar Dec 08 '25 22:12 sinelaw