`workspace::SendKeystrokes` no longer able to send commands to terminal

[Jeff-SearchPilot]

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I have this workspace keybinding, which has been working for months..

    "bindings": {
      "alt-g": [
        "workspace::SendKeystrokes",
        "ctrl-shift-p new center terminal enter lazygit; exit enter"
      ],

As you can see, I can press alt-g and it will fire up a full height terminal with lazygit running. When I updated to "Zed Preview 0.165.1" today this has stopped working. Now when triggering the keybinding a terminal pane opens but the lazygit;exit command is inserted into the file I was editing, rather than the terminal.

This was working on the previous release

Environment

Zed: v0.165.1 (Zed Preview)
OS: Linux Wayland fedora 41
Memory: 15.3 GiB
Architecture: x86_64
GPU: Intel(R) Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) || Intel open-source Mesa driver || Mesa 24.2.7

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[notpeter]

In general SendKeystrokes doesn't work as you might expect with async steps. E.g. spawning a new center terminal would needs to wait for the terminal to spawn and the focus to change and SendKeystrokes can't do that.

I recommend you use a task for this:
tasks.json:

[
  {
    "label": "lazygit",
    "command": "lazygit",
    "hide": "on_success"
  },
]

keymap.json:

[
  {
    "context": "Workspace",
    "bindings": {
      "alt-g": ["task::Spawn", { "task_name": "lazygit" }]
    }
  }
]

[Jeff-SearchPilot]

SendKeystrokes has been doing that almost since I started using zed. Shame that this no longer works, has the new split terminal feature broken that?

Moving to a task would be fine but from what I can see theres no way to spawn the task and have it take up more screen space without clicking the zoom button. Any suggestions?

[notpeter]

At the moment, I don't think there is. There has been some discussion here:

• key bindings that can run multiple actions #17710

As a workaround you could spawn an external terminal (like alacritty) fullscreen with lazygit like so:

  {
    "label": "lazygit",
    "command": "alacritty -o 'window.startup_mode=\"SimpleFullscreen\"' --working-directory ${ZED_WORKTREE_ROOT} --command lazygit",
    "hide": "always"
  },

But it'd be nice to support something similar entirely within Zed.

[baldwindavid]

I had just reported this regression in #21610 and then found this closed issue. This is a definite bummer as I've relied upon it for the last year for both lazygit and to approximate netrw-style file navigation. I'm all for the task route, but tasks cannot target the center terminal as requested in #9445