bug: Pop-up messages visibily execute using the cmdline, which is distracting

[Charlie B]

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Neovim version (nvim -v)

NVIM v0.9.5 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1703358377

Operating system/version

MacOS 11.6

Describe the bug

When editing a file with messages from a syntax highlighter (e.g. ALE), jumping between messages causes the echom a:message dialog to flicker in and out of view. Is it possible not to render this dialog when handling messages from a plugin?

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open a file with a supported linter.
2. Make a change that will cause the linter to highlight an error.
3. Using the cursor, click in the highlighted area, then click outside of it. Observe flickering.

Expected Behavior

Ideally, messages triggered by plugins wouldn't be rendered in the center-screen command dialog. See the attached file for the current behavior.

Grabacion.de.pantalla.2024-01-25.a.la.s.23.24.55.mov

Repro

-- DO NOT change the paths and don't remove the colorscheme
local root = vim.fn.fnamemodify("./.repro", ":p")

-- set stdpaths to use .repro
for _, name in ipairs({ "config", "data", "state", "cache" }) do
  vim.env[("XDG_%s_HOME"):format(name:upper())] = root .. "/" .. name
end

-- bootstrap lazy
local lazypath = root .. "/plugins/lazy.nvim"
if not vim.loop.fs_stat(lazypath) then
  vim.fn.system({ "git", "clone", "--filter=blob:none", "https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim.git", lazypath, })
end
vim.opt.runtimepath:prepend(lazypath)

-- install plugins
local plugins = {
  { 
    "catppuccin/nvim", 
    name = "catppuccin", 
    priority = 1000,
    config = function()
	    vim.cmd([[colorscheme catppuccin-mocha]])
    end,
    },
  "folke/tokyonight.nvim",
  "folke/noice.nvim",
  "hrsh7th/nvim-cmp",
  "dense-analysis/ale",
  -- add any other plugins here
}
require("lazy").setup(plugins, {
  root = root .. "/plugins",
})
-- add anything else here

[Sam]

When editing a file with messages from a syntax highlighter (e.g. ALE), jumping between messages causes the echom a:message dialog to flicker in and out of view. Is it possible not to render this dialog when handling messages from a plugin?

The issue is that ALE is using : to send the message, even the default command-line appears but it gets overwritten by the message, ALE should use <Cmd> or call echom directly to avoid this.

[Folke Lemaitre]

Check help for <cmd> and/or silent.
Not a Noice issue