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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.
echo "<ESC>^Hello world from window $WINDOW<ESC>\"
where `<ESC>' is ASCII ESC and `^' is a literal caret or up-arrow.
(none)
Toggles the use of the terminal's hardware status line. If `on',
screen will use this facility to display one line messages.
Otherwise these messages are overlayed in reverse video mode at the
display line. Note that the hardstatus feature can only be used if the
termcap/terminfo capabilities "hs", "ts", "fs" and "ds" are set
properly. Default is `on' whenever the "hs" capability is present.
(C-a m, C-a C-m)
Repeat the last message displayed in the message line. Useful if you're
typing when a message appears, because (unless your terminal has a
hardware status line) the message goes away when you press a key.
(none)
Defines the time screen delays a new message when another is
currently displayed. Defaults to 1 second.
(none)
Defines the time a message is displayed, if screen is not
disturbed by other activity. Defaults to 5 seconds.
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