Dismiss notification by id

[chrisgrieser]

Right now, we can use a notification id to replace a notification, and we can use dismiss to dismiss all notifications. Would it be possible to dismiss a specific notification by id?

[rcarriga]

Would you mind describing the use case to be able to do this?

[chrisgrieser]

In my plugin, I want to keep certain notifications on screen for a bit longer (using timeout = false). When I then want to dismiss the notification, the option I have is to dismiss all notifications, which has the undesired side effect of also dismissing any other notifications (from other plugins or from the user) as well

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the concrete use case: In my plugin tinygit, I want to display commit-diffstats while the user is entering a commit message

[jonathan-elize]

So I was wondering if this was possible as well. I use a notification to show when I'm debugging certain things and it wanted to be able to dismiss just that notification specifically when I finish debugging without closing any other notifications I might have open.

I found we can accomplish this by using the current functionality of nvim-notify to replace the original message with a very short timeout so it leaves almost immediately:

local debug_notify_id = vim.notify("Debugging...", vim.log.levels.WARN)

-- Once debugging is done:
vim.notify("Debugging...", vim.log.levels.WARN, { timeout = 1, replace = debug_notify_id })

debug_notify_id is the id of the original message I sent out. I set a timeout of 1 millisecond to make it leave after this amount of time. 1 milisecond is almost effectively making it leave immediately.