4.3 Programming The Message Bar

Function: echo-string screen msg

Display string in the message bar on screen. You almost always want to use message.

Function: message fmt &rest args

run FMT and ARGS through ‘format’ and echo the result to the current screen.

Macro: with-message-queuing new-on-bottom-p &body body

Queue all messages sent by (MESSAGE ...), (ECHO-STRING ...), (ECHO-STRING-LIST ...) forms within BODY without clobbering earlier messages. When NEW-ON-BOTTOM-P is non-nil, new messages are queued at the bottom.

Variable: *queue-messages-p*

When non-nil, ECHO-STRING-LIST will retain old messages in addition to new ones. When the value is :new-on-bottom, new messages are added to the bottom as in a log file. See also WITH-MESSAGE-QUEUING.

Variable: *input-history-ignore-duplicates*

Do not add a command to the input history if it’s already the first in the list.

Variable: *input-completion-style*

The completion style to use. A completion style has to implement input-completion-reset and input-completion-complete. Available completion styles include

make-input-completion-style-cyclic

make-input-completion-style-unambiguous

Function: make-input-completion-style-cyclic

nil

Function: make-input-completion-style-unambiguous &key display-limit

Default Values:

  display-limit  64

nil

Command: copy-last-message

Copy the last message displayed into the X selection

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