12 The Echo Area

  • 12.1 Echo Area Functions
  • 12.2 Prompting Functions
  • 12.3 Control of Parsing Behavior
  • 12.4 Defining New Prompting Functions
  • 12.5 Some Echo Area Commands
  • Hemlock provides a number of facilities for displaying information and prompting the user for it. Most of these work through a small window displayed at the bottom of the screen. This is called the echo area and is supported by a buffer and a window. This buffer's modeline (see section 3.3) is referred to as the status line, which, unlike other buffers' modelines, is used to show general status about the editor, Lisp, or world. [annotate]

    Default Status Line Fields  (initial value ) [Variable]
              

    This is the initial list of modeline-field objects stored in the echo area buffer. [annotate]

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    Echo Area Height  (initial value 3) [Variable]
              

    This variable determines the initial height in lines of the echo area window. [annotate]

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