Status readout / notification of current activities via Klipper (Mainsail)

Is there any solution for displaying of status information available?

Often I wonder what the printer is doing and the console doesn’t provide any information.

i.e. I want to know that the printer is currently ramping up the bed temperature before doing anything else.
Or if some random macro initiated a wait period to settle temperature I would like to read it somewhere on a display or within the console window that the machine is doing nothing because the macro told it so.

This is the example:
G4 P60000 ; let temps settle for 1 min

Also certain information is shown in the Mainsail Status/Job queqe window sometimes.
Something like: “chamber heating canceled”
Here the chamber fan turned off because temp was reached. Somehow it triggered this information display but I didn’t figure out why and how yet.

I think with marlin there was a “Display” command you could have added after every line of gcode.

Maybe somebody has a good idea or some hint where this topic was handled appropriately.

This information window here red circle is what I mean!

You could check this:
https://www.klipper3d.org/G-Codes.html#respond

Otherwise with M118 you can maybe be suitable already.

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