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(screen.info)Message Line


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The Message Line
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   `screen' displays informational messages and other diagnostics in a
"message line" at the bottom of the screen.  If your terminal has a
status line defined in its termcap, screen will use this for displaying
its messages, otherwise the last line of the screen will be temporarily
overwritten and output will be momentarily interrupted.  The message
line is automatically removed after a few seconds delay, but it can also
be removed early (on terminals without a status line) by beginning to
type.

Privacy Message
Using the message line from your program.
Hardware Status Line
Use the terminal's hardware status line.
Last Message
Redisplay the last message.
Message Wait
Control how long messages are displayed.

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