Variable: minibuffer-message-timeout

minibuffer-message-timeout is a variable defined in keyboard.c.

Value

2

Documentation

How long to display an echo-area message when the minibuffer is active.

If the value is a number, it should be specified in seconds. If the value is not a number, such messages never time out.

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Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/keyboard.c
  DEFVAR_LISP ("minibuffer-message-timeout", Vminibuffer_message_timeout,
	       doc: /* How long to display an echo-area message when the minibuffer is active.
If the value is a number, it should be specified in seconds.
If the value is not a number, such messages never time out.  */);