Elvis 2.1 Messages 12. You can change the verbiage, or even the language, of any message. You can make any message ring the terminal's bell. You can hide certain messages. This section of the manual describes how messages are generated, and how you can customize them.
Some messages also have other arguments.
The importance of a message is a symbol which describes what type of message it is. This affects the way that the message is displayed. The text of the message is a string. Although this bracketed list is part of the string, it is not considered to be part of the message's text. Each letter in the bracketed list describes how one argument is to be displayed.