UX / Feature suggestion - stay in hunk viewing mode after discard

[Andrej730]

One thing I've noticed trying out lazygit, it seemed a bit unintuitive when you do commits -> select some commit with enter -> select some file with enter -> d to discard some hunk it exits hunk editing mode and you always need to reenter it, it feels like exiting hunk mode should be explicit for user in that case.

See the demo below - note that after each discard user needs to reenter hunk viewing mode.

Screencast.From.2026-06-27.17-48-35.mp4

[stefanhaller]

This only has technical reasons right now (custom patch mode can't cope with the commit changing from under it, so it needs to exit).

But I have plans to get rid of the separate custom patch panel entirely anyway, which will make this issue obsolete; see #5732 if you're curious. The video I posted there contains exactly this use case.