Using the Electric VLSI Design System

Chapter IV: THE DISPLAY

| ## 2: The Messages Window |

Before describing the commands for controlling the editing windows, it is useful to mention the messages window, which contains scrollable text.

The messages window is the place for all textual information. If the window is closed, it will go away, but it will reappear whenever messages are displayed. If this window is obscured by other Electric windows, it will pop to the top when new information is sent to it.

The text in the messages window can be selected with the cursor and edited with the Cut, Copy, and Paste subcommands of the Text Edit command of the Edit menu. You can change the font and text size of the messages window with the Message Window Font command of the Info menu (which has a different format on each platform).

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