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Display string in the message bar on screen. You almost always want to use message
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@ echo-string
run FMT and ARGS through ‘format’ and echo the result to the current screen.
@ message
Queue all messages sent by (MESSAGE ...), (ECHO-STRING ...), (ECHO-STRING-LIST ...) forms within BODY without clobbering earlier messages. When NEW-ON-BOTTOM-P is non-nil, new messages are queued at the bottom.
When non-nil, ECHO-STRING-LIST will retain old messages in addition to new ones. When the value is :new-on-bottom, new messages are added to the bottom as in a log file. See also WITH-MESSAGE-QUEUING.
Do not add a command to the input history if it’s already the first in the list.
The completion style to use. A completion style has to implement input-completion-reset and input-completion-complete. Available completion styles include
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@ make-input-completion-style-cyclic
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@ make-input-completion-style-unambiguous
Copy the last message displayed into the X selection