# Custom Pagers

Lazygit supports custom pagers, [configured](/docs/Config.md) in the config.yml file (which can be opened by pressing `e` in the Status panel).

Support does not extend to Windows users, because we're making use of a package which doesn't have Windows support.

## Default:

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    colorArg: always
```

the `colorArg` key is for whether you want the `--color=always` arg in your `git diff` command. Some pagers want it set to `always`, others want it set to `never`.

## Delta:

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    colorArg: always
    pager: delta --dark --paging=never
```

![](https://i.imgur.com/QJpQkF3.png)

A cool feature of delta is --hyperlinks, which renders clickable links for the line numbers in the left margin, and lazygit supports these. To use them, set the `pager:` config to `delta --dark --paging=never --line-numbers --hyperlinks --hyperlinks-file-link-format="lazygit-edit://{path}:{line}"`; this allows you to click on an underlined line number in the diff to jump right to that same line in your editor.

## Diff-so-fancy

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    colorArg: always
    pager: diff-so-fancy
```

![](https://i.imgur.com/rjH1TpT.png)

## ydiff

```yaml
gui:
  sidePanelWidth: 0.2 # gives you more space to show things side-by-side
git:
  paging:
    colorArg: never
    pager: ydiff -p cat -s --wrap --width={{columnWidth}}
```

![](https://i.imgur.com/vaa8z0H.png)

Be careful with this one, I think the homebrew and pip versions are behind master. I needed to directly download the ydiff script to get the no-pager functionality working.

## Using external diff commands

Some diff tools can't work as a simple pager like the ones above do, because they need access to the entire diff, so just post-processing git's diff is not enough for them. The most notable example is probably [difftastic](https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk).

These can be used in lazygit by using the `externalDiffCommand` config; in the case of difftastic, that could be

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    externalDiffCommand: difft --color=always
```

The `colorArg` and `pager` options are not used in this case.

You can add whatever extra arguments you prefer for your difftool; for instance

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    externalDiffCommand: difft --color=always --display=inline --syntax-highlight=off
```

Instead of setting this command in lazygit's `externalDiffCommand` config, you can also tell lazygit to use the external diff command that is configured in git itself (`diff.external`), by using

```yaml
git:
  paging:
    useExternalDiffGitConfig: true
```

This can be useful if you also want to use it for diffs on the command line, and it also has the advantage that you can configure it per file type in `.gitattributes`; see https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_defining_an_external_diff_driver.