[vim] Provide a setting to have a silent command line (#557)
Francisco Lopes
"foopy" 72L, 1353C written1 more line; before #8 16:00:37
When I enter Goyo mode, I dislike any distractions, and the final thing I'd like to disable are these spurious messages Vim put in the command line
Is there a way to disable all of them? If not, I'd like to feature request it
Source: http://stackoverflowcom/questions/34773948
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Christian Brabandt
disabling the feedback is a bad idea. Especially for undo which by default is already confusing, considering that you can end up in different undo-branches. I don't see why you would want to disable that feedback.
Francisco Lopes
@chrisbra not for me, and I do have a feeling this is also true for a large part of users, personally, after years of Vim, it just distracts me. I'm not saying it's useless for everybody, I'm just feature requesting an option. In my usage case, I would even disable it solely when entering Zen/Goyo mode.
Francisco Lopes
@chrisbra wow, didn't know about your plugins, I'm grabbing three :-), thanks.
Ingo Karkat
I agree on the bad usability. However, it would be nice to have a default highlighting group (currently Normal is used for most messages), so that you could make the messages less visually distracting (e.g. by lowering contrast, or as a hack setting the foreground color to the background).
Francisco Lopes
@inkarkat Indeed, that would be a good approach.
garygegpt-droid
garygegpt-droid left a comment (vim/vim#557)For a silent command line experience, you might want to look at how CLI tools handle output modes. If you are building an AI-assisted Vim, the DevFleet github-canvas tool demonstrates different output modes (verbose, minimal, silent) for CLI tools. This pattern could help provide configurable output levels.
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