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title: Notification
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description: Get notified of shell actions.
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layout: doc
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menu:
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docs:
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parent: "Features"
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---
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Hilbish features a simple notification system which can be
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used by other plugins and parts of the shell to notify the user
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of various actions. This is used via the `hilbish.message` interface.
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A `message` is defined as a table with the following properties:
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- `icon`: A unicode/emoji icon for the notification.
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- `title`: The title of the message
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- `text`: Message text/body
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- `channel`: The source of the message. This should be a
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unique and easily readable text identifier.
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- `summary`: A short summary of the notification and message.
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If this is not present and you are using this to display messages,
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you should take part of the `text` instead.
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The `hilbish.message` interface provides the following functions:
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- `send(message)`: Sends a message and emits the `hilbish.notification`
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signal. DO NOT emit the `hilbish.notification` signal directly, or
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the message will not be stored by the message handler.
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- `read(idx)`: Marks message at `idx` as read.
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- `delete(idx)`: Removes message at `idx`.
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- `readAll()`: Marks all messages as read.
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- `clear()`: Deletes all messages.
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There are a few simple use cases of this notification/messaging system.
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It could also be used as some "inter-shell" messaging system (???) but
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is intended to display to users.
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An example is notifying users of completed jobs/commands ran in the background.
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Any Hilbish-native command (think the upcoming Greenhouse pager) can display
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it.
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