🐙 Octo.nvim

GitHub in NeoVim.

TL;DR

Edit and review GitHub issues and pull requests from the comfort of your favorite editor.

🌲 Table of Contents

• ✨ Features
• ⚡️ Requirements
• 📦 Installation
• ⚙️ Configuration
• 🚀 Usage
• 🤖 Commands
• 🔥 Examples
• 📋 PR reviews
• 🍞 Completion
• 🎨 Colors
• 🏷️ Status Column
• 🙋 FAQ
• ✋ Contributing
• 📜 License

✨ Features

• Edit GitHub issues and PRs
• Add/Modify/Delete comments
• Add/Remove label, reactions, assignees, project cards, reviewers, etc.
• Add Review PRs

⚡️Requirements

• Install GitHub CLI
• Install plenary.nvim
• Install telescope.nvim
• Install nvim-web-devicons

📦 Installation

Use your favourite plugin manager to install it. eg:

use {
  'pwntester/octo.nvim',
  requires = {
    'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim',
    'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
    'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons',
  },
  config = function ()
    require"octo".setup()
  end
}

⚙️ Configuration

require"octo".setup({
  default_remote = {"upstream", "origin"}; -- order to try remotes
  ssh_aliases = {},                        -- SSH aliases. e.g. `ssh_aliases = {["github.com-work"] = "github.com"}`
  reaction_viewer_hint_icon = "";         -- marker for user reactions
  user_icon = " ";                        -- user icon
  timeline_marker = "";                   -- timeline marker
  timeline_indent = "2";                   -- timeline indentation
  right_bubble_delimiter = "";            -- bubble delimiter
  left_bubble_delimiter = "";             -- bubble delimiter
  github_hostname = "";                    -- GitHub Enterprise host
  snippet_context_lines = 4;               -- number or lines around commented lines
  gh_env = {},                             -- extra environment variables to pass on to GitHub CLI, can be a table or function returning a table
  timeout = 5000,                          -- timeout for requests between the remote server
  ui = {
    use_signcolumn = true,                 -- show "modified" marks on the sign column
  },
  issues = {
    order_by = {                           -- criteria to sort results of `Octo issue list`
      field = "CREATED_AT",                -- either COMMENTS, CREATED_AT or UPDATED_AT (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#issueorderfield)
      direction = "DESC"                   -- either DESC or ASC (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#orderdirection)
    }
  },
  pull_requests = {
    order_by = {                           -- criteria to sort the results of `Octo pr list`
      field = "CREATED_AT",                -- either COMMENTS, CREATED_AT or UPDATED_AT (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#issueorderfield)
      direction = "DESC"                   -- either DESC or ASC (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/enums#orderdirection)
    },
    always_select_remote_on_create = "false" -- always give prompt to select base remote repo when creating PRs
  },
  file_panel = {
    size = 10,                             -- changed files panel rows
    use_icons = true                       -- use web-devicons in file panel (if false, nvim-web-devicons does not need to be installed)
  },
  mappings = {
    issue = {
      close_issue = { lhs = "<space>ic", desc = "close issue" },
      reopen_issue = { lhs = "<space>io", desc = "reopen issue" },
      list_issues = { lhs = "<space>il", desc = "list open issues on same repo" },
      reload = { lhs = "<C-r>", desc = "reload issue" },
      open_in_browser = { lhs = "<C-b>", desc = "open issue in browser" },
      copy_url = { lhs = "<C-y>", desc = "copy url to system clipboard" },
      add_assignee = { lhs = "<space>aa", desc = "add assignee" },
      remove_assignee = { lhs = "<space>ad", desc = "remove assignee" },
      create_label = { lhs = "<space>lc", desc = "create label" },
      add_label = { lhs = "<space>la", desc = "add label" },
      remove_label = { lhs = "<space>ld", desc = "remove label" },
      goto_issue = { lhs = "<space>gi", desc = "navigate to a local repo issue" },
      add_comment = { lhs = "<space>ca", desc = "add comment" },
      delete_comment = { lhs = "<space>cd", desc = "delete comment" },
      next_comment = { lhs = "]c", desc = "go to next comment" },
      prev_comment = { lhs = "[c", desc = "go to previous comment" },
      react_hooray = { lhs = "<space>rp", desc = "add/remove 🎉 reaction" },
      react_heart = { lhs = "<space>rh", desc = "add/remove ❤️ reaction" },
      react_eyes = { lhs = "<space>re", desc = "add/remove 👀 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_up = { lhs = "<space>r+", desc = "add/remove 👍 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_down = { lhs = "<space>r-", desc = "add/remove 👎 reaction" },
      react_rocket = { lhs = "<space>rr", desc = "add/remove 🚀 reaction" },
      react_laugh = { lhs = "<space>rl", desc = "add/remove 😄 reaction" },
      react_confused = { lhs = "<space>rc", desc = "add/remove 😕 reaction" },
    },
    pull_request = {
      checkout_pr = { lhs = "<space>po", desc = "checkout PR" },
      merge_pr = { lhs = "<space>pm", desc = "merge commit PR" },
      squash_and_merge_pr = { lhs = "<space>psm", desc = "squash and merge PR" },
      list_commits = { lhs = "<space>pc", desc = "list PR commits" },
      list_changed_files = { lhs = "<space>pf", desc = "list PR changed files" },
      show_pr_diff = { lhs = "<space>pd", desc = "show PR diff" },
      add_reviewer = { lhs = "<space>va", desc = "add reviewer" },
      remove_reviewer = { lhs = "<space>vd", desc = "remove reviewer request" },
      close_issue = { lhs = "<space>ic", desc = "close PR" },
      reopen_issue = { lhs = "<space>io", desc = "reopen PR" },
      list_issues = { lhs = "<space>il", desc = "list open issues on same repo" },
      reload = { lhs = "<C-r>", desc = "reload PR" },
      open_in_browser = { lhs = "<C-b>", desc = "open PR in browser" },
      copy_url = { lhs = "<C-y>", desc = "copy url to system clipboard" },
      goto_file = { lhs = "gf", desc = "go to file" },
      add_assignee = { lhs = "<space>aa", desc = "add assignee" },
      remove_assignee = { lhs = "<space>ad", desc = "remove assignee" },
      create_label = { lhs = "<space>lc", desc = "create label" },
      add_label = { lhs = "<space>la", desc = "add label" },
      remove_label = { lhs = "<space>ld", desc = "remove label" },
      goto_issue = { lhs = "<space>gi", desc = "navigate to a local repo issue" },
      add_comment = { lhs = "<space>ca", desc = "add comment" },
      delete_comment = { lhs = "<space>cd", desc = "delete comment" },
      next_comment = { lhs = "]c", desc = "go to next comment" },
      prev_comment = { lhs = "[c", desc = "go to previous comment" },
      react_hooray = { lhs = "<space>rp", desc = "add/remove 🎉 reaction" },
      react_heart = { lhs = "<space>rh", desc = "add/remove ❤️ reaction" },
      react_eyes = { lhs = "<space>re", desc = "add/remove 👀 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_up = { lhs = "<space>r+", desc = "add/remove 👍 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_down = { lhs = "<space>r-", desc = "add/remove 👎 reaction" },
      react_rocket = { lhs = "<space>rr", desc = "add/remove 🚀 reaction" },
      react_laugh = { lhs = "<space>rl", desc = "add/remove 😄 reaction" },
      react_confused = { lhs = "<space>rc", desc = "add/remove 😕 reaction" },
    },
    review_thread = {
      goto_issue = { lhs = "<space>gi", desc = "navigate to a local repo issue" },
      add_comment = { lhs = "<space>ca", desc = "add comment" },
      add_suggestion = { lhs = "<space>sa", desc = "add suggestion" },
      delete_comment = { lhs = "<space>cd", desc = "delete comment" },
      next_comment = { lhs = "]c", desc = "go to next comment" },
      prev_comment = { lhs = "[c", desc = "go to previous comment" },
      select_next_entry = { lhs = "]q", desc = "move to previous changed file" },
      select_prev_entry = { lhs = "[q", desc = "move to next changed file" },
      close_review_tab = { lhs = "<C-c>", desc = "close review tab" },
      react_hooray = { lhs = "<space>rp", desc = "add/remove 🎉 reaction" },
      react_heart = { lhs = "<space>rh", desc = "add/remove ❤️ reaction" },
      react_eyes = { lhs = "<space>re", desc = "add/remove 👀 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_up = { lhs = "<space>r+", desc = "add/remove 👍 reaction" },
      react_thumbs_down = { lhs = "<space>r-", desc = "add/remove 👎 reaction" },
      react_rocket = { lhs = "<space>rr", desc = "add/remove 🚀 reaction" },
      react_laugh = { lhs = "<space>rl", desc = "add/remove 😄 reaction" },
      react_confused = { lhs = "<space>rc", desc = "add/remove 😕 reaction" },
    },
    submit_win = {
      approve_review = { lhs = "<C-a>", desc = "approve review" },
      comment_review = { lhs = "<C-m>", desc = "comment review" },
      request_changes = { lhs = "<C-r>", desc = "request changes review" },
      close_review_tab = { lhs = "<C-c>", desc = "close review tab" },
    },
    review_diff = {
      add_review_comment = { lhs = "<space>ca", desc = "add a new review comment" },
      add_review_suggestion = { lhs = "<space>sa", desc = "add a new review suggestion" },
      focus_files = { lhs = "<leader>e", desc = "move focus to changed file panel" },
      toggle_files = { lhs = "<leader>b", desc = "hide/show changed files panel" },
      next_thread = { lhs = "]t", desc = "move to next thread" },
      prev_thread = { lhs = "[t", desc = "move to previous thread" },
      select_next_entry = { lhs = "]q", desc = "move to previous changed file" },
      select_prev_entry = { lhs = "[q", desc = "move to next changed file" },
      close_review_tab = { lhs = "<C-c>", desc = "close review tab" },
      toggle_viewed = { lhs = "<leader><space>", desc = "toggle viewer viewed state" },
    },
    file_panel = {
      next_entry = { lhs = "j", desc = "move to next changed file" },
      prev_entry = { lhs = "k", desc = "move to previous changed file" },
      select_entry = { lhs = "<cr>", desc = "show selected changed file diffs" },
      refresh_files = { lhs = "R", desc = "refresh changed files panel" },
      focus_files = { lhs = "<leader>e", desc = "move focus to changed file panel" },
      toggle_files = { lhs = "<leader>b", desc = "hide/show changed files panel" },
      select_next_entry = { lhs = "]q", desc = "move to previous changed file" },
      select_prev_entry = { lhs = "[q", desc = "move to next changed file" },
      close_review_tab = { lhs = "<C-c>", desc = "close review tab" },
      toggle_viewed = { lhs = "<leader><space>", desc = "toggle viewer viewed state" },
    }
  }
})

🚀 Usage

Just edit the issue title, body or comments as a regular buffer and use :w(rite) to sync the issue with GitHub.

🤖 Commands

There is only an Octo <object> <action> [arguments] command: If no command is passed, the argument to Octo is treated as a URL from where an issue or pr repo and number are extracted

Object	Action	Arguments
issue	close	Close the current issue
	reopen	Reopen the current issue
	create [repo]	Creates a new issue in the current or specified repo
	edit [repo]	Edit issue <number> in current or specified repo
	list [repo] [key=value] (1)	List all issues satisfying given filter
	search	Live issue search
	reload	Reload issue. Same as doing e!
	browser	Open current issue in the browser
	url	Copies the URL of the current issue to the system clipboard
pr	list [repo] [key=value] (2)	List all PRs satisfying given filter
	search	Live issue search
	edit [repo]	Edit PR <number> in current or specified repo
	reopen	Reopen the current PR
	create	Creates a new PR for the current branch
	close	Close the current PR
	checkout	Checkout PR
	commits	List all PR commits
	changes	Show all PR changes (diff hunks)
	diff	Show PR diff
	merge [commit|rebase|squash] [delete]	Merge current PR using the specified method
	ready	Mark a draft PR as ready for review
	checks	Show the status of all checks run on the PR
	reload	Reload PR. Same as doing e!
	browser	Open current PR in the browser
	url	Copies the URL of the current PR to the system clipboard
repo	list (3)	List repos user owns, contributes or belong to
	fork	Fork repo
	browser	Open current repo in the browser
	url	Copies the URL of the current repo to the system clipboard
	view	Open a repo by path ({organization}/{name})
gist	list [repo] [key=value] (4)	List user gists
comment	add	Add a new comment
	delete	Delete a comment
thread	resolve	Mark a review thread as resolved
	unresolve	Mark a review thread as unresolved
label	add [label]	Add a label from available label menu
	remove [label]	Remove a label
	create [label]	Create a new label
assignee	add [login]	Assign a user
	remove [login]	Unassign a user
reviewer	add [login]	Assign a PR reviewer
reaction	thumbs_up | +1	Add 👍 reaction
	thumbs_down | -1	Add 👎 reaction
	eyes	Add 👀 reaction
	laugh	Add 😄 reaction
	confused	Add 😕 reaction
	rocket	Add 🚀 reaction
	heart	Add ❤️ reaction
	hooray | party | tada	Add 🎉 reaction
card	add	Assign issue/PR to a project new card
	remove	Delete project card
	move	Move project card to different project/column
review	start	Start a new review
	submit	Submit the review
	resume	Edit a pending review for current PR
	discard	Deletes a pending review for current PR if any
	comments	View pending review comments
	commit	Pick a specific commit to review
	close	Close the review window and return to the PR
actions		Lists all available Octo actions
search		Search GitHub for issues and PRs matching the query

0. [repo]: If repo is not provided, it will be derived from <cwd>/.git/config.

1. In-menu mappings:

• <CR>: Edit Issue
• <C-b>: Opens issue in the browser
• <C-y>: Copies URL to system clipboard

Available filter keys

• since
• createdBy
• assignee
• mentioned
• labels
• milestone
• states

2. In-menu mappings:

• <CR>: Edit PR
• <C-b>: Opens PR in the browser
• <C-o>: Checkout PR
• <C-y>: Copies URL to system clipboard

Available filter keys

• baseRefName
• headRefName
• labels
• states

3. In-menu mappings:

• <CR>: View repo
• <C-b>: Opens repo in the browser
• <C-y>: Copies URL to system clipboard

4. In-menu mappings:

• <CR>: Append Gist to buffer Available keys: repo|public|secret

🔥 Examples

Octo https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim/issues/12
Octo issue create
Octo issue create pwntester/octo.nvim
Octo comment add
Octo reaction add hooray
Octo issue edit pwntester/octo.nvim 1
Octo issue edit 1
Octo issue list createdBy=pwntester
Octo issue list neovim/neovim labels=bug,help\ wanted states=OPEN
Octo search assignee:pwntester is:pr

📋 PR review

• Open the PR (eg: Octo <PR url> or Octo pr list or Octo pr edit <PR number>)
• Start a review with Octo review start or resume a pending review with Octo review resume
• A new tab will show a panel with changed files and two windows showing the diff on any of them.
• Change panel entries with ]q and [q or by selecting an entry in the window
• Add comments with <space>ca or suggestions with <space>sa on single or multiple visual-selected lines
  • A new buffer will appear in the alternate diff window. The cursor will be positioned in the new buffer
  • When ready, save the buffer to commit changes to GitHub
  • Move back to the diff window and move the cursor, the thread buffer will hide
• Hold the cursor on a line with a comment to show a thread buffer with all the thread comments
  • To modify, delete, react or reply to a comment, move to the window containing the thread buffer
  • Perform any operations as if you were in a regular issue buffer
• Review pending comments with Octo review comments
  • Use to jump to the selected pending comment
• If you want to review a specific commit, use Octo review commit to pick a commit. The file panel will get filtered to show only files changed by that commit. Any comments placed on these files will be applied at that specific commit level and will be added to the pending review.
• When ready, submit the review with Octo review submit
• A new float window will pop up. Enter the top level review comment and exit to normal mode. Then press <C-m> to submit a comment, <C-a> to approve it or <C-r> to request changes

🍞 Completion

Octo provides a built-in omnifunc completion for issues, PRs and users that you can trigger using <C-x><C-o>. Alternately, if you use nvim-cmp for completion, you can use the cmp-git source to provide issues, PRs, commits and users completion.

🎨 Colors

Highlight Group	Defaults to
OctoDirty	ErrorMsg
OctoIssueTitle	PreProc
OctoIssueId	Question
OctoEmpty	Comment
OctoFloat	NormalNC
OctoDate	Comment
OctoSymbol	Comment
OctoTimelineItemHeading	Comment
OctoDetailsLabel	Title
OctoMissingDetails	Comment
OctoDetailsValue	Identifier
OctoDiffHunkPosition	NormalFloat
OctoCommentLine	TabLineSel
OctoEditable	NormalFloat bg
OctoViewer	GitHub color
OctoBubble	NormalFloat
OctoBubbleGreen	GitHub color
OctoBubbleRed	GitHub color
OctoUser	OctoBubble
OctoUserViewer	OctoViewer
OctoReaction	OctoBubble
OctoReactionViewer	OctoViewer
OctoPassingTest	GitHub color
OctoFailingTest	GitHub color
OctoPullAdditions	GitHub color
OctoPullDeletions	GitHub color
OctoPullModifications	GitHub color
OctoStateOpen	GitHub color
OctoStateClosed	GitHub color
OctoStateMerge	GitHub color
OctoStatePending	GitHub color
OctoStateApproved	OctoStateOpen
OctoStateChangesRequested	OctoStateClosed
OctoStateCommented	Normal
OctoStateDismissed	OctoStateClosed

The term GitHub color refers to the colors used in the WebUI. The (addition) viewer means the user of the plugin or more precisely the user authenticated via the gh CLI tool used to retrieve the data from GitHub.

🏷️ Status Column

If you are using the vim.opt.statuscolumn feature, you can disable Octo's comment marks in the signcolumn and replace them with any customizations on the statuscolumn.

Disable the signcolumn with:

ui = {
    use_signcolumn = false
}

Then, provide a statuscolumn replacement such as:

local function mk_hl(group, sym)
  return table.concat({ "%#", group, "#", sym, "%*" })
end

_G.get_statuscol_octo = function(bufnum, lnum)
  if vim.api.nvim_buf_get_option(bufnum, "filetype") == "octo" then
    if type(octo_buffers) == "table" then
      local buffer = octo_buffers[bufnum]
      if buffer then
        buffer:update_metadata()
        local hl = "OctoSignColumn"
        local metadatas = {buffer.titleMetadata, buffer.bodyMetadata}
        for _, comment_metadata in ipairs(buffer.commentsMetadata) do
          table.insert(metadatas, comment_metadata)
        end
        for _, metadata in ipairs(metadatas) do
          if metadata and metadata.startLine and metadata.endLine then
            if metadata.dirty then
              hl = "OctoDirty"
            else
              hl = "OctoSignColumn"
            end
            if lnum - 1 == metadata.startLine and lnum - 1 == metadata.endLine then
              return mk_hl(hl, "[ ")
            elseif lnum - 1 == metadata.startLine then
              return mk_hl(hl, "┌ ")
            elseif lnum - 1 == metadata.endLine then
              return mk_hl(hl, "└ ")
            elseif metadata.startLine < lnum - 1 and lnum - 1 < metadata.endLine then
              return mk_hl(hl, "│ ")
            end
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
  return "  "
end

vim.opt.statuscolumn = "%{%v:lua.get_statuscol_octo(bufnr(), v:lnum)%}"

🙋 FAQ

How can I disable bubbles for XYZ?

Each text-object that makes use of a bubble (except labels) do use their own highlight group that linkes per default to the main bubble highlight group. To disable most bubbles at once you can simply link OctoBubble to Normal. To only disable them for a certain plain do the same for the specific sub-group (e.g. OctoUser).

Why do my issue titles or markdown syntax do not get highlighted properly?

The title, body and comments of an issue or PR are special as they get special highlighting applied and is an editable section. Due to the latter property it gets the OctoEditable highlighting via a special signs linehl setting. This takes precedence over the buffer internal highlights. To only get the background highlighted by the editable section, set OctoEditable to a highlight with a background color definition only.

Why am I getting authentication error from gh?

This means that are either using a GITHUB_TOKEN to authenticate or gh is not authenticated.

In case of the former, run:

GITHUB_TOKEN= gh auth login

... and choose a method to authorise access for gh.

gh must store the creds so it can work in a subshell.

Can I use treesitter markdown parser with octo buffers?

Just add the following lines to your TreeSitter config:

local ft_to_parser = require "nvim-treesitter.parsers".filetype_to_parsername
ft_to_parser.octo = "markdown"

If you are using nvim 0.9 (nightly) use the following instead:

vim.treesitter.language.register('markdown', 'octo')

How can I filter PRs by filter keys that aren't available?

You can use the search command :Octo search [query]. The search syntax and available search terms are available in GitHub documentation.

For example to search for PRs with author you can use this command:

:Octo search is:pr author:pwntester repo:github/codeql

Note: You need to provide the repo, otherwise it will search for every PR by that user.

How to enable autocompletion for issues/prs (#) and users (@)?

Add the following mappings for octo file type:

• vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(0, "i", "@", "@<C-x><C-o>", { silent = true, noremap = true })
• vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(0, "i", "#", "#<C-x><C-o>", { silent = true, noremap = true })

✋ Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

See CONTRIBUTING for ways to get started.

Please adhere to this project's CODE_OF_CONDUCT.

🌟 Credits

The PR review panel is heavily inspired in diffview.nvim

📜 License

MIT