Function: edebug-message

edebug-message is a function alias for message, defined in editfns.c.

Signature

(edebug-message FORMAT-STRING &rest ARGS)

Documentation

Display a message at the bottom of the screen.

The message also goes into the *Messages* buffer, if message-log-max is non-nil. (In keyboard macros, that's all it does.) Return the message.

In batch mode, the message is printed to the standard error stream, followed by a newline.

If the variable inhibit-message(var)/inhibit-message(fun) is non-nil, the message is not displayed, only logged in the *Messages* buffer.

The first argument is a format control string, and the rest are data to be formatted under control of the string. Percent sign (%), grave accent (`) and apostrophe (') are special in the format; see format-message for details. To display STRING without special treatment, use (message "%s" STRING).

If the first argument is nil or the empty string, the function clears any existing message; this lets the minibuffer contents show. See also current-message.

Aliases

bookmark-maybe-message (obsolete since 27.1) edebug-message