is the blank line at the very bottom of an Emacs frame. Emacs by default reserves that screen space for echoing keystrokes, error messages, complier messages, messages from background processes, and alerts. Since the echo-area is a special case of the minibuffer window, it uses the same functions for customizing its size and display attributes.
Questions tagged [echo-area]
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Is it possible to make the echo area next to cursor?
The problem: I found it's tiredsome to move my eyeballs up and down from where my cursor is to the bottom echo area.
The question: is it possible to make the echo area dynamically allocated close to my cursor, like tooltips? I searched for packages…
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Is there a way to disable the "buffer is read-only" warning?
I don't find this warning particularly helpful and pretty distracting because it hides the current text in the echo area for a brief moment. Is also seems unnecessary, because I will notice anyway that I cannot write in read-only areas. Is there a…
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How can I suppress certain messages from being echoed in the echo-area?
Is there a way to filter out certain messages from being echoed in the echo-area while still being logged in to the Messages buffer ?
Use case scenario being an aggressive backward delete in the minibuffer yields a Text is read-only message when…
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How to expand truncated information displayed in the echo area?
I am reading the Elisp Reference Manual. I have noticed that some informations are truncated (ellipsis: suspension points) while they are displayed in the echo area. How to view (know) their full value?
For instance, look at the example given to…
user19761
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Messages dissapear too quickly from echo area
When using flymake or similar, syntax highlighting messages will appear in the echo area when you move the cursor to the position of the error.
My problem is that it dissapears too quickly. After about half a second, the echo area clears for some…
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How to use the echo area to display useful information?
Since the echo area at the bottom of a frame is blank when the minibuffer is not active, I'd like to use it for something I don't always need but is informative (like showing org's clocking, battery level etc).
How can I accomplish this?
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