💥 Noice (Nice, Noise, Notice)

Highly experimental plugin that completely replaces the UI for messages, cmdline and the popupmenu.

✨ Features

• 🌅 fully configurable views like nvim-notify, splits, popups, virtual text, ..
• 🔍 use filters to route messages to different views
• 🌈 message highlights are preserved in the views (like the colors of :hi)
• 📝 command output like :messages is shown in normal buffers, which makes it much easier to work with
• 📚 :Noice command to show a full message history
• ⌨️ no more :h more-prompt
• 💻 fully customizable cmdline with icons
• 💅 syntax highlighting for vim and lua on the cmdline
• 🚥 statusline components
• 🔭 open message history in telescope.nvim or fzf-lua

🔥 Status

Noice is using the new experimental vim.ui_attach API, so issues are to be expected. It is highly recommended to use Neovim nightly, since a bunch of issues have already been fixed upstream. Check this tracking issue for a list of known issues.

⚡️ Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.9.0 (nightly highly recommended)
• nui.nvim: used for proper rendering and multiple views
• nvim-notify: notification view (optional)
• a Nerd Font (optional)
• nvim-treesitter (optional, but highly recommended) used for highlighting the cmdline and lsp docs. Make sure to install the parsers for vim, regex, lua, bash, markdown and markdown_inline

📦 Installation

Install the plugin with your preferred package manager:

-- lazy.nvim
{
  "folke/noice.nvim",
  event = "VeryLazy",
  opts = {
    -- add any options here
  },
  dependencies = {
    -- if you lazy-load any plugin below, make sure to add proper `module="..."` entries
    "MunifTanjim/nui.nvim",
    -- OPTIONAL:
    --   `nvim-notify` is only needed, if you want to use the notification view.
    --   If not available, we use `mini` as the fallback
    "rcarriga/nvim-notify",
    }
}

Suggested setup:

require("noice").setup({
  lsp = {
    -- override markdown rendering so that **cmp** and other plugins use **Treesitter**
    override = {
      ["vim.lsp.util.convert_input_to_markdown_lines"] = true,
      ["vim.lsp.util.stylize_markdown"] = true,
      ["cmp.entry.get_documentation"] = true, -- requires hrsh7th/nvim-cmp
    },
  },
  -- you can enable a preset for easier configuration
  presets = {
    bottom_search = true, -- use a classic bottom cmdline for search
    command_palette = true, -- position the cmdline and popupmenu together
    long_message_to_split = true, -- long messages will be sent to a split
    inc_rename = false, -- enables an input dialog for inc-rename.nvim
    lsp_doc_border = false, -- add a border to hover docs and signature help
  },
})

It's a good idea to run :checkhealth noice after installing to check for common issues.

⚙️ Configuration

noice.nvim comes with the following defaults:

Check the wiki for configuration recipes.

{
  cmdline = {
    enabled = true, -- enables the Noice cmdline UI
    view = "cmdline_popup", -- view for rendering the cmdline. Change to `cmdline` to get a classic cmdline at the bottom
    opts = {}, -- global options for the cmdline. See section on views
    ---@type table<string, CmdlineFormat>
    format = {
      -- conceal: (default=true) This will hide the text in the cmdline that matches the pattern.
      -- view: (default is cmdline view)
      -- opts: any options passed to the view
      -- icon_hl_group: optional hl_group for the icon
      -- title: set to anything or empty string to hide
      cmdline = { pattern = "^:", icon = "", lang = "vim" },
      search_down = { kind = "search", pattern = "^/", icon = " ", lang = "regex" },
      search_up = { kind = "search", pattern = "^%?", icon = " ", lang = "regex" },
      filter = { pattern = "^:%s*!", icon = "$", lang = "bash" },
      lua = { pattern = { "^:%s*lua%s+", "^:%s*lua%s*=%s*", "^:%s*=%s*" }, icon = "", lang = "lua" },
      help = { pattern = "^:%s*he?l?p?%s+", icon = "" },
      input = { view = "cmdline_input", icon = "󰥻 " }, -- Used by input()
      -- lua = false, -- to disable a format, set to `false`
    },
  },
  messages = {
    -- NOTE: If you enable messages, then the cmdline is enabled automatically.
    -- This is a current Neovim limitation.
    enabled = true, -- enables the Noice messages UI
    view = "notify", -- default view for messages
    view_error = "notify", -- view for errors
    view_warn = "notify", -- view for warnings
    view_history = "messages", -- view for :messages
    view_search = "virtualtext", -- view for search count messages. Set to `false` to disable
  },
  popupmenu = {
    enabled = true, -- enables the Noice popupmenu UI
    ---@type 'nui'|'cmp'
    backend = "nui", -- backend to use to show regular cmdline completions
    ---@type NoicePopupmenuItemKind|false
    -- Icons for completion item kinds (see defaults at noice.config.icons.kinds)
    kind_icons = {}, -- set to `false` to disable icons
  },
  -- default options for require('noice').redirect
  -- see the section on Command Redirection
  ---@type NoiceRouteConfig
  redirect = {
    view = "popup",
    filter = { event = "msg_show" },
  },
  -- You can add any custom commands below that will be available with `:Noice command`
  ---@type table<string, NoiceCommand>
  commands = {
    history = {
      -- options for the message history that you get with `:Noice`
      view = "split",
      opts = { enter = true, format = "details" },
      filter = {
        any = {
          { event = "notify" },
          { error = true },
          { warning = true },
          { event = "msg_show", kind = { "" } },
          { event = "lsp", kind = "message" },
        },
      },
    },
    -- :Noice last
    last = {
      view = "popup",
      opts = { enter = true, format = "details" },
      filter = {
        any = {
          { event = "notify" },
          { error = true },
          { warning = true },
          { event = "msg_show", kind = { "" } },
          { event = "lsp", kind = "message" },
        },
      },
      filter_opts = { count = 1 },
    },
    -- :Noice errors
    errors = {
      -- options for the message history that you get with `:Noice`
      view = "popup",
      opts = { enter = true, format = "details" },
      filter = { error = true },
      filter_opts = { reverse = true },
    },
    all = {
      -- options for the message history that you get with `:Noice`
      view = "split",
      opts = { enter = true, format = "details" },
      filter = {},
    },
  },
  notify = {
    -- Noice can be used as `vim.notify` so you can route any notification like other messages
    -- Notification messages have their level and other properties set.
    -- event is always "notify" and kind can be any log level as a string
    -- The default routes will forward notifications to nvim-notify
    -- Benefit of using Noice for this is the routing and consistent history view
    enabled = true,
    view = "notify",
  },
  lsp = {
    progress = {
      enabled = true,
      -- Lsp Progress is formatted using the builtins for lsp_progress. See config.format.builtin
      -- See the section on formatting for more details on how to customize.
      --- @type NoiceFormat|string
      format = "lsp_progress",
      --- @type NoiceFormat|string
      format_done = "lsp_progress_done",
      throttle = 1000 / 30, -- frequency to update lsp progress message
      view = "mini",
    },
    override = {
      -- override the default lsp markdown formatter with Noice
      ["vim.lsp.util.convert_input_to_markdown_lines"] = false,
      -- override the lsp markdown formatter with Noice
      ["vim.lsp.util.stylize_markdown"] = false,
      -- override cmp documentation with Noice (needs the other options to work)
      ["cmp.entry.get_documentation"] = false,
    },
    hover = {
      enabled = true,
      silent = false, -- set to true to not show a message if hover is not available
      view = nil, -- when nil, use defaults from documentation
      ---@type NoiceViewOptions
      opts = {}, -- merged with defaults from documentation
    },
    signature = {
      enabled = true,
      auto_open = {
        enabled = true,
        trigger = true, -- Automatically show signature help when typing a trigger character from the LSP
        luasnip = true, -- Will open signature help when jumping to Luasnip insert nodes
        throttle = 50, -- Debounce lsp signature help request by 50ms
      },
      view = nil, -- when nil, use defaults from documentation
      ---@type NoiceViewOptions
      opts = {}, -- merged with defaults from documentation
    },
    message = {
      -- Messages shown by lsp servers
      enabled = true,
      view = "notify",
      opts = {},
    },
    -- defaults for hover and signature help
    documentation = {
      view = "hover",
      ---@type NoiceViewOptions
      opts = {
        lang = "markdown",
        replace = true,
        render = "plain",
        format = { "{message}" },
        win_options = { concealcursor = "n", conceallevel = 3 },
      },
    },
  },
  markdown = {
    hover = {
      ["|(%S-)|"] = vim.cmd.help, -- vim help links
      ["%[.-%]%((%S-)%)"] = require("noice.util").open, -- markdown links
    },
    highlights = {
      ["|%S-|"] = "@text.reference",
      ["@%S+"] = "@parameter",
      ["^%s*(Parameters:)"] = "@text.title",
      ["^%s*(Return:)"] = "@text.title",
      ["^%s*(See also:)"] = "@text.title",
      ["{%S-}"] = "@parameter",
    },
  },
  health = {
    checker = true, -- Disable if you don't want health checks to run
  },
  ---@type NoicePresets
  presets = {
    -- you can enable a preset by setting it to true, or a table that will override the preset config
    -- you can also add custom presets that you can enable/disable with enabled=true
    bottom_search = false, -- use a classic bottom cmdline for search
    command_palette = false, -- position the cmdline and popupmenu together
    long_message_to_split = false, -- long messages will be sent to a split
    inc_rename = false, -- enables an input dialog for inc-rename.nvim
    lsp_doc_border = false, -- add a border to hover docs and signature help
  },
  throttle = 1000 / 30, -- how frequently does Noice need to check for ui updates? This has no effect when in blocking mode.
  ---@type NoiceConfigViews
  views = {}, ---@see section on views
  ---@type NoiceRouteConfig[]
  routes = {}, --- @see section on routes
  ---@type table<string, NoiceFilter>
  status = {}, --- @see section on statusline components
  ---@type NoiceFormatOptions
  format = {}, --- @see section on formatting
}

🔍 Filters

Noice uses filters to route messages to specific views.

🌅 Views

Noice comes with the following built-in backends:

• popup: powered by nui.nvim
• split: powered by nui.nvim
• notify: powered by nvim-notify
• virtualtext: shows the message as virtualtext (for example for search_count)
• mini: similar to notifier.nvim & fidget.nvim
• notify_send: generate a desktop notification

A View (config.views) is a combination of a backend and options. Noice comes with the following built-in views with sane defaults:

Please refer to noice.config.views to see the options. Any options passed to existing views in config.views, will override those options only. You can configure completely new views and use them in custom routes.

All built-in Noice views have the filetype noice

Nui Options

See the Nui documentation for Popup and Split.

Notify Options

Virtual Text Options

Right now there's only an option to set the hl_group used to render the virtual text.

🎨 Formatting

Formatting options can be specified with config.format. For a list of the defaults, please refer to config.format

Noice includes the following formatters:

• level: message level with optional icon and hl_group per level
• text: any text with optional hl_group
• title: message title with optional hl_group
• event: message event with optional hl_group
• kind: message kind with optional hl_group
• date: formatted date with optional date format string
• message: message content itself with optional hl_group to override message highlights
• confirm: only useful for confirm messages. Will format the choices as buttons.
• cmdline: will render the cmdline in the message that generated the message.
• progress: progress bar used by lsp progress
• spinner: spinners used by lsp progress
• data: render any custom data from Message.opts. Useful in combination with the opts passed to vim.notify

Formatters are used in format definitions. Noice includes the following built-in formats:

{
  -- default format
  default = { "{level} ", "{title} ", "{message}" },
  -- default format for vim.notify views
  notify = { "{message}" },
  -- default format for the history
  details = {
    "{level} ",
    "{date} ",
    "{event}",
    { "{kind}", before = { ".", hl_group = "NoiceFormatKind" } },
    " ",
    "{title} ",
    "{cmdline} ",
    "{message}",
  },
  telescope = ..., -- formatter used to display telescope results
  telescope_preview = ..., -- formatter used to preview telescope results
  fzf = ..., -- formatter used to display fzf results
  fzf_preview = ..., -- formatter used to preview fzf results
  lsp_progress = ..., -- formatter used by lsp progress
  lsp_progress_done = ..., -- formatter used by lsp progress
}

Text before/after the formatter or in the before/after options, will only be rendered if the formatter itself rendered something.

The format view option, can be either a string (one of the built-in formats), or a table with a custom format definition.

To align text, you can use the align option for a view. Can be center, left or right.

🚗 Routes

A route has a filter, view and optional opts attribute.

• view: one of the views (built-in or custom)
• filter a filter for messages matching this route
• opts: options for the view and the route

Route options can be any of the view options above, or one of:

Please refer to noice.config.routes for an overview of the default routes. Routes passed to setup() will be prepended to the default routes.

🚥 Statusline Components

Noice comes with the following statusline components:

• ruler
• message: last line of the last message (event=show_msg)
• command: showcmd
• mode: showmode (@recording messages)
• search: search count messages

See noice.config.status for the default config.

You can add custom statusline components in setup under the status key.

Statusline components have the following methods:

• get: gets the content of the message without highlights
• get_hl: gets the content of the message with highlights
• has: checks if the component is available

🔭 Pickers

For convenience, you can do :Noice pick, which will open a picker with all the messages in the history, either with telescope or fzf-lua.

🔭 Telescope

In order to use Noice in Telescope, you can either do :Noice telescope, or register the extension and use :Telescope noice. The results panel is formatted using config.format.formatters.telescope. The preview is formatted with config.format.formatters.telescope_preview

require("telescope").load_extension("noice")

🔭 Fzf Lua

In order to use Noice in FzfLua, you can do :Noice fzf. The results panel is formatted using config.format.formatters.fzf. The preview is formatted with config.format.formatters.telescope_fzf

🚀 Usage

• :Noice or :Noice history shows the message history
• :Noice last shows the last message in a popup
• :Noice dismiss dismiss all visible messages
• :Noice errors shows the error messages in a split. Last errors on top
• :Noice disable disables Noice
• :Noice enable enables Noice
• :Noice stats shows debugging stats
• :Noice telescope opens message history in Telescope

Alternatively, all commands also exist as a full name like :NoiceLast, :NoiceDisable.

You can also use Lua equivalents.

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>nl", function()
  require("noice").cmd("last")
end)

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>nh", function()
  require("noice").cmd("history")
end)

You can add custom commands with config.commands

↪️ Command Redirection

Sometimes it's useful to redirect the messages generated by a command or function to a different view. That can be easily achieved with command redirection.

The redirect API can taken an optional routes parameter, which defaults to {config.redirect}.

-- redirect ":hi"
require("noice").redirect("hi")

-- redirect some function
require("noice").redirect(function()
  print("test")
end)

Adding the following keymap, will redirect the active cmdline when pressing <S-Enter>. The cmdline stays open, so you can change the command and execute it again. When exiting the cmdline, the popup window will be focused.

vim.keymap.set("c", "<S-Enter>", function()
  require("noice").redirect(vim.fn.getcmdline())
end, { desc = "Redirect Cmdline" })

Lsp Hover Doc Scrolling

vim.keymap.set({ "n", "i", "s" }, "<c-f>", function()
  if not require("noice.lsp").scroll(4) then
    return "<c-f>"
  end
end, { silent = true, expr = true })

vim.keymap.set({ "n", "i", "s" }, "<c-b>", function()
  if not require("noice.lsp").scroll(-4) then
    return "<c-b>"
  end
end, { silent = true, expr = true })

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