Resize Wezterm panes using Arrow Keys

[hadynz]

I would like to configure Wezterm to match how I have configured moving and resizing in Nvim, which is as follows:

• Moving: CTRL + hjkl
• Resizing: CTRL + <Left> | <Down> | <Up> | <Right>

Looking at the wezterm plugin options, and looking at the code, it doesn't seem that the above is possible. The configuration seems to make an assumption that modifiers.move and modifiers.resize must be different since they share the same direction_keys.

smart_splits.apply_to_config(config, {
  direction_keys = { 'h', 'j', 'k', 'l' },
  modifiers = {
    move = 'CTRL', -- modifier to use for pane movement, e.g. CTRL+h to move left
    resize = 'META', -- modifier to use for pane resize, e.g. META+h to resize to the left
  }
})

I almost want the opposite. I want both move/resize modifiers to be the same (CTRL), but use different keys for direction_keys.

Curious to know if I have misread code/documentation, and if someone has managed to manually.

[mrjones2014]

Hm, that's not a case I'd thought about.

I think to support your case in a backwards compatible way, I could update it to work like so:

smart_splits.apply_to_config(config, {
  -- if specified like this, share the same direction keys
  direction_keys = { 'h', 'j', 'k', 'l' },
  -- but you could also do this
  direction_keys = {
    move = { 'h', 'j', 'k', 'l' },
    resize = { 'Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right' },
  },
  modifiers = {
    move = 'CTRL', -- modifier to use for pane movement, e.g. CTRL+h to move left
    resize = 'META', -- modifier to use for pane resize, e.g. META+h to resize to the left
  }
})

[mrjones2014]

Added in #227

[hadynz]

Thanks. I'll try it out.

Do you know what's the best way to force download the latest using wezterm's plugin module?

[mrjones2014]

In wezterm’s command palette there’s an item to update all plugins