Provide a setting to have a silent command line

[oblitum]

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When I enter Goyo mode, I dislike any distractions, and the final thing I'd like to disable are these 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://stackoverflow.com/questions/34773948

[chrisbra]

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.

[oblitum]

@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.

[oblitum]

@chrisbra wow, didn't know about your plugins, I'm grabbing three :-), thanks!

[inkarkat]

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).

[oblitum]

@inkarkat Indeed, that would be a good approach.