Re: permanently display a message at the bottom

["G. Milde" <g.milde@xxxxxx>]

On 23.02.06, SANGOI DINO LEONARDO wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Juergen Lemke
> > Sent: giovedì 23 febbraio 2006 17.32
> > Subject: permanently display a message at the bottom
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Is it possible to permanently display a message at the
> > bottom of the screen? Ie, one that unlike those
> > produced by message() will persist after the user
> > presses a key?
> > 
> Yes, it can be done in two ways, and both are crude hacks :-)
> 
> You can patch jed to have a new 'kmessage' function, or you 
> can "simulate" it with some tricks using "update_hook".

Also, you can change the status bar with set_status_line(). E.g. ch_table.sl
does this with

  set_status_line(" Character Table:  "+ cs + "  ---- press '?' for help ", 0);


Günter

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Milde ife.et.tu-dresden.de

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