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* Message display at the bottom of the screen
@ 2023-07-02 11:44 uzibalqa
  2023-07-02 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: uzibalqa @ 2023-07-02 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: uzibalqa via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor


The docstring for 

(message FORMAT-STRING &rest ARGS)

says that it

Display a message at the bottom of the screen.

Is the region at the bottom of the screen referred by some specific name?



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* Re: Message display at the bottom of the screen
  2023-07-02 11:44 Message display at the bottom of the screen uzibalqa
@ 2023-07-02 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2023-07-02 11:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2023 11:44:00 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> 
> 
> The docstring for 
> 
> (message FORMAT-STRING &rest ARGS)
> 
> says that it
> 
> Display a message at the bottom of the screen.
> 
> Is the region at the bottom of the screen referred by some specific name?

It is known as "echo-area".  Alternatively, you could use
"mini-window", which refers to the window used for echo-area and
minibuffer input.




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