Increase display-time or use C-b ~

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:55:48AM -0700, jake wrote:
> Often I'll type a command at tmux's colon prompt and screw it up. I
> see a flash of an error message. It's like it's taunting me. We both
> know I did something wrong. Tmux even knows what I probably screwed
> up. But tmux only wants me to know that it knows, not actually help me
> figure out what the @#$% the right way is.
> 
> K, so, I'm being a bit silly and/or paranoid. But seriously, the error
> messages disappear ridiculously fast, and it prevents me from learning
> how to use this wonderful piece of software. For example, I type
> "swap-window 3 4" and it blinks something in the status bar, but
> doesn't swap windows 3 and 4. Wtf? How do I extend the error message
> time? How do I see tmux errors? This incredibly aggravating, on the
> level of trying to grok screen's rc file. It actually upsets me more
> than the last three US presidential elections, which is stupid,
> considering the global scope of politics and the relatively trivial
> scope of a terminal multiplexer, but true nevertheless.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> jake
> 
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