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elisp: The Echo Area

 
 37.4 The Echo Area
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 The “echo area” is used for displaying error messages (Errors),
 for messages made with the ‘message’ primitive, and for echoing
 keystrokes.  It is not the same as the minibuffer, despite the fact that
 the minibuffer appears (when active) in the same place on the screen as
 the echo area.  The Minibuffer (emacs)Minibuffer.
 
    Apart from the functions documented in this section, you can print
 Lisp objects to the echo area by specifying ‘t’ as the output stream.
 Output Streams.
 

Menu

 
· Displaying Messages Explicitly displaying text in the echo area.
· Progress            Informing user about progress of a long operation.
· Logging Messages    Echo area messages are logged for the user.
· Echo Area Customization Controlling the echo area.
 

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