Re: Timeout for messages

[Phil Hudson]

Thanks for this, Ram. What is `echo-string-list`?

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 18:39, Ram Krishnan <kriyative@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I use something like the following to show the last 20 or so messages in a 
> selection list, and picking one redisplays the message  will copy its 
> contents into the clipboard.
>
> (defcommand show-message-window-messages () ()
>   "Display a list of message-window messages"
>   (let* ((*record-last-msg-override* t)
>          (screen (current-screen))
>          (sel (select-from-menu screen
>                                 (screen-last-msg screen)
>                                 nil)))
>     (when sel
>       (echo-string-list screen sel)
>       (set-x-selection (format nil "~{~a~^~%~}" sel) :clipboard))))
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -ram
>
>
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Thursday, 20 Oct 2022 at 13:40, Michael Raskin wrote:
> > > Are these the messages that follow stumpwm::*timeout-wait* for the
> > > disappearance time?
> >
> > Thank you!  I wanted to know this as well.
> >
> > On a related note, are these messages logged anywhere or can they be
> > logged if not already?  I get some strange messages using dynamic tiling
> > groups and it would be good to be able to feed these back to this group,
> > say.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > eric
>
>