`message-format`

Set the format string for the prompt and message area.

Scope: session
Type: Text
Default: #[#{?#{command_prompt},#{E:message-command-style},#{E:message-style}}]#{message}
Set: set-option message-format value
Read: show-options message-format

Description#

Set the format string for the prompt and message area. The special placeholder ‘#{message}’ expands to the interactive prompt or message text and ‘#{command_prompt}’ is set to 1 when the prompt is in command mode (vi). Style directives like fill, align, and width may be used in the format string. The default uses a conditional to select between message-style and message-command-style.

Releases#

tmux 3.7c : present
tmux 3.2a : not present

Source#

Defined in: options-table.c:736
C source reference: options_table
CLI Manual: Original manual entry

Used by#

Library documentation that names this option.

Rust: options.generated.MESSAGE_FORMAT
Go: tmux.GlobalSessionScope.SetMessageFormat, tmux.Session.SetMessageFormat, tmux.SessionOptionValues.MessageFormat