From 87821fce0e3f8d55657fdc4fba39cc1186e2ed3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Marriott <nicm@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:16:11 +0000
Subject: Add a -p flag to display-message to print the output rather than
 displaying in the status line, this allows things like "display -p '#W'" to
 find the current window index.

---
 cmd-display-message.c | 9 ++++++---
 tmux.1                | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd-display-message.c b/cmd-display-message.c
index aa4fd5db..8c42ee6d 100644
--- a/cmd-display-message.c
+++ b/cmd-display-message.c
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ int	cmd_display_message_exec(struct cmd *, struct cmd_ctx *);
 
 const struct cmd_entry cmd_display_message_entry = {
 	"display-message", "display",
-	CMD_TARGET_CLIENT_USAGE " [message]",
-	CMD_ARG01, "",
+	"[-p] " CMD_TARGET_CLIENT_USAGE " [message]",
+	CMD_ARG01, "p",
 	cmd_target_init,
 	cmd_target_parse,
 	cmd_display_message_exec,
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ cmd_display_message_exec(struct cmd *self, struct cmd_ctx *ctx)
 		template = data->arg;
 
 	msg = status_replace(c, NULL, template, time(NULL), 0);
-	status_message_set(c, "%s", msg);
+	if (cmd_check_flag(data->chflags, 'p'))
+		ctx->print(ctx, "%s", msg);
+	else
+		status_message_set(c, "%s", msg);
 	xfree(msg);
 
 	return (0);
diff --git a/tmux.1 b/tmux.1
index 9183b351..d3c61bd7 100644
--- a/tmux.1
+++ b/tmux.1
@@ -2011,11 +2011,17 @@ Ask for confirmation before executing
 This command works only from inside
 .Nm .
 .It Xo Ic display-message
+.Op Fl p
 .Op Fl t Ar target-client
 .Op Ar message
 .Xc
 .D1 (alias: Ic display )
-Display a message in the status line.
+Display a message.
+If
+.Fl p
+is given, the output is printed to stdout, otherwise it is displayed in the
+.Ar target-client
+status line.
 The format of
 .Ar message
 is as for
-- 
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