The Contents of the Message Buffer
String_Type MESSAGE_BUFFER
The MESSAGE_BUFFER
variable is a read-only string variable
whose value indicates the text to be displayed or is currently
displayed in the message buffer.
message, vmessage, error, verror
beep
Void beep ();
The beep
function causes the terminal to beep according to the value
of the variable IGNORE_BEEP
.
tt_send
IGNORE_BEEP
clear_message
Void clear_message ();
This function may be used to clear the message line of the display.
message, update, error, flush
flush
Void flush (String msg);
The flush
function behaves like message
except that it immediately
displays its argument msg
as a message in the mini-buffer. That is,
it is not necessary to call update
to see the message appear.
message, error
tt_send
Void tt_send (String s);
This function may be used to send a string specified by s
directly
to the terminal with no interference by the editor. One should
exercise caution when using this routine since it may interfere with
JED's screen management routines forcing one to redraw the screen.
Nevertheless, it can serve a useful purpose. For example, when run in
an XTerm window, using
tt_send ("\e[?9h");
will enable sending mouse click information to JED encoded as
keypresses.
beep