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tmux status bar messages last only about a second: can I extend this?

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I've searched through the man pages several times for a way to set the length of time that status bar messages (what you see if you enter at a tmux command prompt) are visible, but there seems to be nothing. Does anyone know a way I can make them stay long enough to be read. Particularly annoying a…

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display-message "hello world"

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It sounds like you want to change the session option. The initial default value is 750 milliseconds. If you want to set a new, default value, then change the “global” value (e.g. in your ): The global value will be effective for any sessions that ha…

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