Ability to not respond to slash commands without an error popping up?

[solar bay]

Hello - I was wondering if there was a way to mark an interaction as complete without actually having anything pop up to the user? I have a series of buttons that modify an embed (a pagination menu) and it is quite inconvenient if every time they click a button an ephemeral reply pops up.

[hollow cairn]

for messagecomponents, interaction.deferUpdate

[sharp ridge]

MessageComponentInteraction#deferUpdate()
Defers an update to the message to which the component was attached.

[opaque timber]

Why aren't you using update to modify the embed

[solar bay]

ah, thank you!

[solar bay]

After deferring the update, how do I actually update the message? When I do, it just says interaction already deferred

for replies you editReply

[hollow cairn]

^ @solar bay

i don’t know if ur pagination is built to last longer than an interaction tokens life, but if not u can just use interaction.update.

If it is, interaction.message.edit

[opaque timber]

Except each button click is a new interaction with a new token anyway

update is much longer lasting way to do it