Disabling Vim command line feedback messages

Question

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When I enter Goyo mode, I dislike any distractions, and the final thing I'd like to disable are these spurious messages Vim put in the command line.

Is there a way to disable all of them?

EDIT

Submitted a feature request issue: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/557.

Answer 1

You can use

:set report=99999
:set shortmess=astWAIc

The first will reduce the number of messages, the second will shorten messages. But there's no option to completely turn these off, as that would be (at least in my opinion) very bad usability.

It would be nice to have a default highlighting group (currently Normal is used for most messages), so that you could make the messages less visually distracting (e.g. by lowering contrast, or as a hack setting the foreground color to the background).