Toast or timeout for showInformationMessage

[vanowm]

Current implementation doesn't allow automatically dismiss showInformationMessage messages, leaving us with setStatusBarMessage, which is too subtle, and IMO is useless. There seems to be no other method to get user's attention without require their interaction.

Status bar has "Show notifications" button, which shows previous messages from showInformationMessage, which suggests these messages could get hidden, however the API doesn't provide any means to hide these messages.

It would be useful to be able either provide a timeout for showInformationMessage or at least dismiss own messages.

[vanowm]

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature, but if showInformationMessage called quickly 4 times with the same text it will dismiss the message. This could be used as a hack to dismiss own messages, but it feels like abuse.

[vscodenpa]

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[heartacker]

I believe this is necessary feature.

many successful message is the disturb. we need those message, but we have to clear.

for ex:
we are using the svn and when we trigger update, the svn updated message is useful but we really really do not want to spend my time to clear the message.

[vscodenpa]

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