How do I make my template task quietly finish?

[Irubataru]

I followed the tutorial, but when I run my task the status bar shows (customized to rust)

SUCCESS rustc file.rs -o file
Press ENTER or type a command to continue

How do I skip the Press ENTER ... part so it doesn't force me to press enter after every run? I see that e.g. the cargo tasks do not have this. When I run them I do not have to press enter.

My template is

return {
  name = "Rust build",
  builder = function()
    local file = vim.fn.expand("%:p")
    local outfile = vim.fn.expand("%:p:r")
    return {
      cmd = { "rustc" },
      args = { file, "-o", outfile },
      components = {
        {
          "on_output_quickfix",
          open_on_match = true,
        },
        "default",
      },
    }
  end,
  condition = {
    filetype = { "rust" },
  },
}

[stevearc]

There is something a little bit tricky here, which is vim's rules for when it decides to show the Press ENTER ... message. I haven't looked at the internals, but empirically and from years of experience it tends to show up when more than one line of output appears in rapid succession. For example:

:lua print("hi")

Doesn't cause it to appear, but

:lua print("hi\nhi")

Now we see Press ENTER ....

There are a lot of possible options from here:

1. Figure out what the output is before the SUCCESS rustc ... line and try to eliminate that. :messages will show your recent messages.
2. Redirect these notifications to a channel that is non-blocking. I use nvim-notify to put notifications in a floating window (after setup you'll need to vim.notify = require("notify")).
3. Remove the notification from the task. All tasks notify on completion by default (here is the set of default components, the one doing that is on_complete_notify). You could remove this from the default set

require("overseer").setup({
  component_aliases = {
    -- Most tasks are initialized with the default components
    default = {
      { "display_duration", detail_level = 2 },
      "on_output_summarize",
      "on_exit_set_status",
      -- "on_complete_notify", comment this out or delete it
      "on_complete_dispose",
    },
  },
})

Or you could explicitly set just the components you want when you create the task, instead of using "default"

return {
  name = "Rust build",
  builder = function()
    local file = vim.fn.expand("%:p")
    local outfile = vim.fn.expand("%:p:r")
    return {
      cmd = { "rustc" },
      args = { file, "-o", outfile },
      components = {
        {
          "on_output_quickfix",
          open_on_match = true,
        },
        { "display_duration", detail_level = 2 },
        "on_output_summarize",
        "on_exit_set_status",
        "on_complete_dispose",
      },
    }
  end,
  condition = {
    filetype = { "rust" },
  },
}

There are some more possibilities depending on exactly how you want this to behave, but hopefully that gives you some avenues to explore for now.

[Irubataru]

Thank you so much, it works like a charm. I decided to just declare the components in the templates themselves to make sure I didn't mess up something I didn't realise I wanted 😅

Love the plugin! <3