How to manually close the :Lazy popup when not focused?

[craigmac]

Is there a way to re-focus the :Lazy window if you happen to move away from it? I opened :Lazy and did <C-w>h which put cursor back into nvim buffer (no lazy window) and I can't refocus the open window using any <C-w> combination, I can only close it with <C-w>o (but that closes all the other windows open as well). Couldn't find any answer in Discussions searching for 'popup', 'window', 'close' and variants thereof.

[folke]

You can do <c-w>w

[alex-hutton]

@folke

Is there a way to make the Lazy window auto close?

If I do :Lazy, it opens the lazy floating window. I then do :help lazy, neovim opens a help window underneath the lazy floating window and puts focus into the opened window. This is not user friendly. From there I'm supposed to cycle windows until I make it back into the lazy window so I can press 'q'? Another idea, what if we could make :Lazy open in a fully fledged neovim window, instead of the fancy floating one? Put the fancy floating window in an optional separate package, make lazy.nvim focus on the job of package management. Further, why isn't there a command exposed like :LazyClose, that could be globally key mapped? The 'Q' key should also be shown at the top of the floating window, along with Install (I) Update (U) Sync (S) etc. Is 'q' to quit even in the lazy.nvim docs, I can't see it anywhere. Are people supposed to guess?

[dpetka2001]

You could make a keybinding to use require("lazy.view").view:close(), but be aware since it's internal API and not documented, it's prone to change in the future.
As far as q is concerned, it's pretty common behavior for plugins to use it to close windows in the Neovim ecosystem (Telescope, Neo-tree etc) and even apps in the terminal in general (lazygit, ranger etc). In general, in terminal apps it's pretty common. So if you use the terminal a lot you're pretty used to this behavior.

[Neurognostic]

You can create an auto-command that closes :Lazy when it loses focus.

For example:

vim.api.nvim_create_augroup('lazy_user', { clear = true })
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('BufLeave', {
	group = 'lazy_user',
	callback = function()
		local ft = vim.api.nvim_get_option_value(
			'filetype',
			{ buf = vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf() }
		)
		if ft == 'lazy' then
			require('lazy.view').view:close()
		end
	end,
})