Notifications

Messages travel through noice, which routes them, and nvim-notify, which draws them in the bottom-right corner. On top of that sits a small policy layer that decides what is worth your attention.

How long messages stay

Severity sets the lifetime, because an error you cannot finish reading is worse than no error, and "Autosave enabled" does not deserve five seconds.

Level	On screen
Error	10 seconds
Warning	6 seconds
Info	2 seconds
Debug / Trace	1.5 seconds

Anything that passes an explicit timeout of its own keeps it.

What never appears

Identical messages repeated within two seconds are collapsed — language servers and formatters tend to fail in bursts, and five copies carry no more information than one. A short mutelist drops known chatter outright: direnv's export messages on every directory change, No information available from an empty hover, and Neovim's position_encoding deprecation warning.

The list lives in config/plugins/notify.nix as _G.notify_mutelist; entries are Lua patterns matched against the message text.

Reading what you missed

Key	Mode	Action
<leader>Nl	n	Show the last message again — the one that just faded
<leader>Nh	n	Notification history (Telescope)
<leader>Na	n	All messages, in a split
<leader>Ne	n	Errors only
<leader>Nd	n	Dismiss everything on screen

The one to remember

<leader>Nl is the answer to "wait, what did that say?". Info messages are deliberately brisk because nothing is lost — it is all still in the history.

Do not disturb

<leader>tN mutes notifications while you present, record or pair. Errors still get through, so a silent failure cannot hide behind it. Which-key shows the current state as [ON] / [OFF] alongside the other toggles.