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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
47071 | 2 @c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 |
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3 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 @node Display, Search, Registers, Top | |
6 @chapter Controlling the Display | |
7 | |
8 Since only part of a large buffer fits in the window, Emacs tries to | |
9 show a part that is likely to be interesting. Display-control commands | |
10 allow you to specify which part of the text you want to see, and how to | |
11 display it. | |
12 | |
13 @menu | |
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14 * Faces:: How to change the display style using faces. |
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15 * Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces. |
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16 * Highlight Changes:: Using colors to show where you changed the buffer. |
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17 * Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight. |
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19 * Horizontal Scrolling:: Moving text left and right in a window. | |
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20 * Fringes:: Enabling or disabling window fringes. |
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21 * Useless Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace. |
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23 * Selective Display:: Hiding lines with lots of indentation. | |
24 * Optional Mode Line:: Optional mode line display features. | |
25 * Text Display:: How text characters are normally displayed. | |
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26 * Display Custom:: Information on variables for customizing display. |
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27 * Cursor Display:: Features for displaying the cursor. |
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29 | |
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30 @node Faces |
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31 @section Using Multiple Typefaces |
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32 @cindex faces |
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34 Emacs supports using multiple styles of displaying characters. Each |
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35 style is called a @dfn{face}. Each face can specify various @dfn{face |
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36 attributes}, such as the font family, the height, weight and slant of |
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37 the characters, the foreground and background color, and underlining |
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38 or overlining. A face does not have to specify all of these |
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39 attributes; often it inherits many of them from another face. |
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41 On a window system, all the Emacs face attributes are meaningful. |
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42 On a character terminal, only some of them work. Some character |
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43 terminals support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes; some |
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44 support colors. Character terminals generally do not support changing |
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45 the height and width or the font family. |
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47 Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode) |
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48 will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one |
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49 face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening. This includes |
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50 the console on GNU/Linux, an @code{xterm} which supports colors, the |
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51 MS-DOS display (@pxref{MS-DOS}), and the MS-Windows version invoked with |
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52 the @option{-nw} option. Emacs determines automatically whether the |
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55 You control the appearance of a part of the text in the buffer by |
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56 specifying the face or faces to use for it. The style of display used |
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57 for any given character is determined by combining the attributes of |
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58 all the applicable faces specified for that character. Any attribute |
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60 whose attributes reflect the default settings of the frame itself. |
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62 Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several |
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63 commands and menus for specifying faces for text in the buffer. |
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64 @xref{Format Faces}, for how to specify the font for text in the |
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65 buffer. @xref{Format Colors}, for how to specify the foreground and |
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66 background color. |
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68 @cindex face colors, setting |
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69 @findex set-face-foreground |
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70 @findex set-face-background |
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71 To alter the appearance of a face, use the customization buffer. |
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72 @xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify |
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73 attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources}). Alternatively, |
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74 you can change the foreground and background colors of a specific face |
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75 with @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} and @kbd{M-x set-face-background}. |
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76 These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a face name and a color |
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77 name, with completion, and then set that face to use the specified |
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78 color. Changing the colors of the @code{default} face also changes |
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79 the foreground and background colors on all frames, both existing and |
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80 those to be created in the future. (You can also set foreground and |
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81 background colors for the current frame only; see @ref{Frame |
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84 Emacs 21 can correctly display variable-width fonts, but Emacs |
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87 results when you use variable-width fonts. In particular, indentation |
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88 commands can give inconsistent results, so we recommend you avoid |
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89 variable-width fonts for editing program source code. Filling will |
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90 sometimes make lines too long or too short. We plan to address these |
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93 @findex list-faces-display |
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94 To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type |
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95 @kbd{M-x list-faces-display}. It's possible for a given face to look |
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97 frame in which you type it. Here's a list of the standard defined |
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100 @table @code |
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101 @item default |
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102 This face is used for ordinary text that doesn't specify any other face. |
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104 This face is used for the mode line of the currently selected window. |
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105 By default, it's drawn with shadows for a ``raised'' effect on window |
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109 Like @code{mode-line}, but used for mode lines of the windows other |
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114 Similar to @code{mode-line} for a window's header line. Most modes |
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117 This face is used for the prompt strings displayed in the minibuffer. |
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118 @item highlight |
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119 This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes. |
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122 This face is used for highlighting Isearch matches. |
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126 @item region |
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130 This face is used for displaying a secondary X selection (@pxref{Secondary |
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131 Selection}). |
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132 @item bold |
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134 @item italic |
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136 @item bold-italic |
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138 @item underline |
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139 This face underlines text. |
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140 @item fixed-pitch |
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142 @item fringe |
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143 @cindex fringe |
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144 The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows on graphic |
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146 between the text area and the window's right and left borders.) |
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147 @item scroll-bar |
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148 This face determines the visual appearance of the scroll bar. |
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149 @item border |
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150 This face determines the color of the frame border. |
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151 @item cursor |
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152 This face determines the color of the cursor. |
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153 @item mouse |
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154 This face determines the color of the mouse pointer. |
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155 @item tool-bar |
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156 This is the basic tool-bar face. No text appears in the tool bar, but the |
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157 colors of this face affect the appearance of tool bar icons. |
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158 @item tooltip |
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159 This face is used for tooltips. |
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160 @item menu |
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161 This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus. Setting the |
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162 font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set |
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163 the font are ignored in this case. |
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164 @item trailing-whitespace |
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168 @item variable-pitch |
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169 The basic variable-pitch face. |
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170 @end table |
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171 |
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172 @cindex @code{region} face |
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173 When Transient Mark mode is enabled, the text of the region is |
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174 highlighted when the mark is active. This uses the face named |
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175 @code{region}; you can control the style of highlighting by changing the |
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176 style of this face (@pxref{Face Customization}). @xref{Transient Mark}, |
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177 for more information about Transient Mark mode and activation and |
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178 deactivation of the mark. |
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179 |
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180 One easy way to use faces is to turn on Font Lock mode. This minor |
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181 mode, which is always local to a particular buffer, arranges to |
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182 choose faces according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It |
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183 can recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several |
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184 languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other |
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185 important constructs. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about |
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186 Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. |
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187 |
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188 You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears |
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189 on your screen using the command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. |
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190 @xref{PostScript}. |
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191 |
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192 @node Font Lock |
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193 @section Font Lock mode |
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194 @cindex Font Lock mode |
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195 @cindex mode, Font Lock |
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196 @cindex syntax highlighting and coloring |
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197 |
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198 Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular buffer, |
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199 which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces according to |
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200 the syntax of the text you are editing. It can recognize comments and |
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201 strings in most languages; in several languages, it can also recognize |
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202 and properly highlight various other important constructs---for |
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203 example, names of functions being defined or reserved keywords. |
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204 Some special modes, such as Occur mode and Info mode, have completely |
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205 specialized ways of assigning fonts for Font Lock mode. |
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206 |
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207 @findex font-lock-mode |
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208 @findex turn-on-font-lock |
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209 The command @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} turns Font Lock mode on or off |
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210 according to the argument, and toggles the mode when it has no argument. |
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211 The function @code{turn-on-font-lock} unconditionally enables Font Lock |
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212 mode. This is useful in mode-hook functions. For example, to enable |
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213 Font Lock mode whenever you edit a C file, you can do this: |
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214 |
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215 @example |
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216 (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) |
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217 @end example |
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218 |
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219 @findex global-font-lock-mode |
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220 @vindex global-font-lock-mode |
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221 To turn on Font Lock mode automatically in all modes which support |
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222 it, customize the user option @code{global-font-lock-mode} or use the |
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223 function @code{global-font-lock-mode} in your @file{.emacs} file, like |
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224 this: |
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225 |
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226 @example |
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227 (global-font-lock-mode 1) |
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228 @end example |
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229 |
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230 Font Lock mode uses several specifically named faces to do its job, |
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231 including @code{font-lock-string-face}, @code{font-lock-comment-face}, |
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232 and others. The easiest way to find them all is to use completion |
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233 on the face name in @code{set-face-foreground}. |
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234 |
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235 To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify |
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236 different parts of text, just change these faces. There are |
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237 two ways to do it: |
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238 |
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239 @itemize @bullet |
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240 @item |
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241 Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} |
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242 to change the colors of a particular face used by Font Lock. |
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243 @xref{Faces}. The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all |
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244 the faces currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock. |
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245 |
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246 @item |
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247 Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as |
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248 described in @ref{Face Customization}. |
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271 Fontification can be too slow for large buffers, so you can suppress |
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280 Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification) |
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285 thus always outside any string or comment. (@xref{Left Margin |
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291 The variable @code{font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function} (always |
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294 leftmost column parenthesis convention, the default value of the variable |
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300 slow down redisplay while scrolling, particularly if you are close to |
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304 Font Lock highlighting patterns already exist for many modes, but you |
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306 @code{font-lock-add-keywords}, to add your own highlighting patterns for |
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313 '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t))) |
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320 @cindex just-in-time (JIT) font-lock |
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323 delays when a file is visited, Emacs fontifies only the visible |
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328 control this background fontification, called @dfn{Just-In-Time}, or |
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330 customization group @samp{jit-lock}. @xref{Specific Customization}. |
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335 @findex highlight-changes-mode |
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336 Use @kbd{M-x highlight-changes-mode} to enable a minor mode |
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340 @node Highlight Interactively |
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341 @section Interactive Highlighting by Matching |
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342 @cindex highlighting by matching |
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348 certain parts in a voluminous output of some program, or make certain |
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349 cliches stand out in an article. |
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354 highlighted. Hi-lock mode works like Font Lock (@pxref{Font Lock}), |
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359 @item C-x w h @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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375 @item C-x w l @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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376 @kindex C-x w l |
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384 @kindex C-x w b |
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387 at point, with comment delimiters to prevent them from changing your |
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389 @code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns} command. |
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391 These patterns will be read the next time you visit the file while |
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392 Hi-lock mode is enabled, or whenever you use the @kbd{M-x |
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393 hi-lock-find-patterns} command. |
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395 @item C-x w i |
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396 @kindex C-x w i |
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408 @section Scrolling | |
409 | |
410 If a buffer contains text that is too large to fit entirely within a | |
411 window that is displaying the buffer, Emacs shows a contiguous portion of | |
412 the text. The portion shown always contains point. | |
413 | |
414 @cindex scrolling | |
415 @dfn{Scrolling} means moving text up or down in the window so that | |
416 different parts of the text are visible. Scrolling forward means that text | |
417 moves up, and new text appears at the bottom. Scrolling backward moves | |
418 text down and new text appears at the top. | |
419 | |
420 Scrolling happens automatically if you move point past the bottom or top | |
421 of the window. You can also explicitly request scrolling with the commands | |
422 in this section. | |
423 | |
424 @table @kbd | |
425 @item C-l | |
426 Clear screen and redisplay, scrolling the selected window to center | |
427 point vertically within it (@code{recenter}). | |
428 @item C-v | |
429 Scroll forward (a windowful or a specified number of lines) (@code{scroll-up}). | |
430 @item @key{NEXT} | |
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433 @item M-v | |
434 Scroll backward (@code{scroll-down}). | |
435 @item @key{PRIOR} | |
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436 @itemx @key{PAGEUP} |
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438 @item @var{arg} C-l | |
439 Scroll so point is on line @var{arg} (@code{recenter}). | |
440 @item C-M-l | |
441 Scroll heuristically to bring useful information onto the screen | |
442 (@code{reposition-window}). | |
443 @end table | |
444 | |
445 @kindex C-l | |
446 @findex recenter | |
447 The most basic scrolling command is @kbd{C-l} (@code{recenter}) with | |
448 no argument. It clears the entire screen and redisplays all windows. | |
449 In addition, it scrolls the selected window so that point is halfway | |
450 down from the top of the window. | |
451 | |
452 @kindex C-v | |
453 @kindex M-v | |
454 @kindex NEXT | |
455 @kindex PRIOR | |
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457 @kindex PAGEUP |
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459 @findex scroll-down | |
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460 @vindex next-screen-context-lines |
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462 (@code{scroll-up}) with no argument. This scrolls forward by nearly |
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463 the whole window height. The effect is to take the two lines at the |
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464 bottom of the window and put them at the top, followed by nearly a |
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465 whole windowful of lines that were not previously visible. If point |
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467 of the window. |
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38745 | 469 @kbd{M-v} (@code{scroll-down}) with no argument scrolls backward in |
470 a similar way, also with overlap. The number of lines of overlap | |
471 across a @kbd{C-v} or @kbd{M-v} is controlled by the variable | |
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472 @code{next-screen-context-lines}; by default, it is 2. The function |
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473 keys @key{NEXT} and @key{PRIOR}, or @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP}, |
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474 are equivalent to @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v}. |
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476 The commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} with a numeric argument scroll |
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477 the text in the selected window up or down a few lines. @kbd{C-v} |
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478 with an argument moves the text and point up, together, that many |
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479 lines; it brings the same number of new lines into view at the bottom |
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480 of the window. @kbd{M-v} with numeric argument scrolls the text |
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481 downward, bringing that many new lines into view at the top of the |
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482 window. @kbd{C-v} with a negative argument is like @kbd{M-v} and vice |
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483 versa. |
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485 The names of scroll commands are based on the direction that the |
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486 text moves in the window. Thus, the command to scroll forward is |
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487 called @code{scroll-up} because it moves the text upward on the |
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488 screen. The keys @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP} derive their names |
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489 and customary meanings from a different convention that developed |
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490 elsewhere; hence the strange result that @key{PAGEDOWN} runs |
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491 @code{scroll-up}. |
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493 @vindex scroll-preserve-screen-position | |
494 Some users like the full-screen scroll commands to keep point at the | |
495 same screen line. To enable this behavior, set the variable | |
496 @code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} to a non-@code{nil} value. This | |
497 mode is convenient for browsing through a file by scrolling by | |
498 screenfuls; if you come back to the screen where you started, point goes | |
499 back to the line where it started. However, this mode is inconvenient | |
500 when you move to the next screen in order to move point to the text | |
501 there. | |
502 | |
503 Another way to do scrolling is with @kbd{C-l} with a numeric argument. | |
504 @kbd{C-l} does not clear the screen when given an argument; it only scrolls | |
505 the selected window. With a positive argument @var{n}, it repositions text | |
506 to put point @var{n} lines down from the top. An argument of zero puts | |
507 point on the very top line. Point does not move with respect to the text; | |
508 rather, the text and point move rigidly on the screen. @kbd{C-l} with a | |
509 negative argument puts point that many lines from the bottom of the window. | |
510 For example, @kbd{C-u - 1 C-l} puts point on the bottom line, and @kbd{C-u | |
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512 point at the center (vertically) of the selected window. |
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514 @kindex C-M-l | |
515 @findex reposition-window | |
516 The @kbd{C-M-l} command (@code{reposition-window}) scrolls the current | |
517 window heuristically in a way designed to get useful information onto | |
518 the screen. For example, in a Lisp file, this command tries to get the | |
519 entire current defun onto the screen if possible. | |
520 | |
521 @vindex scroll-conservatively | |
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523 portion of the text. Normally, automatic scrolling centers point |
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525 @code{scroll-conservatively} to a small number @var{n}, then if you |
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526 move point just a little off the screen---less than @var{n} |
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527 lines---then Emacs scrolls the text just far enough to bring point |
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535 @code{scroll-up-aggressively} and @code{scroll-down-aggressively}. |
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537 @code{nil}, or a fraction @var{f} between 0 and 1. A fraction |
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541 part of the window height from the top. The larger @var{f}, the more |
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544 @code{nil}, which is the default, scrolls to put point at the center. |
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547 Likewise, @code{scroll-down-aggressively} is used for scrolling |
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548 down. The value, @var{f}, specifies how far point should be placed |
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550 @code{scroll-up-aggressively}, a larger value is more aggressive. |
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553 The variable @code{scroll-margin} restricts how close point can come | |
554 to the top or bottom of a window. Its value is a number of screen | |
555 lines; if point comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the | |
556 window, Emacs recenters the window. By default, @code{scroll-margin} is | |
557 0. | |
558 | |
559 @node Horizontal Scrolling | |
560 @section Horizontal Scrolling | |
561 @cindex horizontal scrolling | |
562 | |
563 @dfn{Horizontal scrolling} means shifting all the lines sideways | |
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570 When a window has been scrolled horizontally, text lines are truncated |
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577 @table @kbd | |
578 @item C-x < | |
579 Scroll text in current window to the left (@code{scroll-left}). | |
580 @item C-x > | |
581 Scroll to the right (@code{scroll-right}). | |
582 @end table | |
583 | |
584 @kindex C-x < | |
585 @kindex C-x > | |
586 @findex scroll-left | |
587 @findex scroll-right | |
588 The command @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected | |
589 window to the left by @var{n} columns with argument @var{n}. This moves | |
590 part of the beginning of each line off the left edge of the window. | |
591 With no argument, it scrolls by almost the full width of the window (two | |
592 columns less, to be precise). | |
593 | |
594 @kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right. The | |
595 window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is displayed | |
596 normally (with each line starting at the window's left margin); | |
597 attempting to do so has no effect. This means that you don't have to | |
598 calculate the argument precisely for @w{@kbd{C-x >}}; any sufficiently large | |
599 argument will restore the normal display. | |
600 | |
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601 If you scroll a window horizontally by hand, that sets a lower bound |
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607 The value of the variable @code{hscroll-margin} controls how close |
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609 be automatically scrolled. It is measured in columns. If the value |
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610 is 5, then moving point within 5 columns of the edge causes horizontal |
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614 The variable @code{hscroll-step} determines how many columns to |
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615 scroll the window when point gets too close to the edge. If it's |
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616 zero, horizontal scrolling centers point horizontally within the |
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617 window. If it's a positive integer, it specifies the number of |
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619 the fraction of the window's width to scroll by. The default is zero. | |
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622 To disable automatic horizontal scrolling, set the variable |
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623 @code{auto-hscroll-mode} to @code{nil}. |
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626 @section Window Fringes |
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627 @cindex fringes |
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629 On a graphical display, each Emacs window normally has narrow |
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630 @dfn{fringes} on the left and right edges. The fringes display |
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631 indications about the text in the window. |
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633 The most common use of the fringes is to indicate a continuation |
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634 line, when one line of text is split into multiple lines on the |
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635 screen. The left fringe shows a curving arrow for each screen line |
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637 The right fringe shows a curving arrow for each screen line except the |
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645 program you are debugging is executing (@pxref{Debuggers}). |
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647 @findex set-fringe-style |
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648 @findex fringe-mode |
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649 You can enable and disable the fringes for all frames using |
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650 @kbd{M-x fringe-mode}. To enable and disable the fringes |
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651 for the selected frame, use @kbd{M-x set-fringe-style}. |
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653 @node Useless Whitespace |
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657 @cindex whitespace, trailing |
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658 @vindex show-trailing-whitespace |
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659 It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line, or |
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661 cases, this @dfn{trailing whitespace} has no effect, but there are |
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680 the form-feed characters.) |
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700 @section Follow Mode | |
701 @cindex Follow mode | |
702 @cindex mode, Follow | |
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707 @dfn{Follow mode} is a minor mode that makes two windows showing the | |
708 same buffer scroll as one tall ``virtual window.'' To use Follow mode, | |
709 go to a frame with just one window, split it into two side-by-side | |
710 windows using @kbd{C-x 3}, and then type @kbd{M-x follow-mode}. From | |
711 then on, you can edit the buffer in either of the two windows, or scroll | |
712 either one; the other window follows it. | |
713 | |
36245 | 714 In Follow mode, if you move point outside the portion visible in one |
715 window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects | |
716 the other window---again, treating the two as if they were parts of | |
717 one large window. | |
718 | |
25829 | 719 To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time. |
720 | |
721 @node Selective Display | |
722 @section Selective Display | |
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25829 | 724 @findex set-selective-display |
725 @kindex C-x $ | |
726 | |
727 Emacs has the ability to hide lines indented more than a certain number | |
728 of columns (you specify how many columns). You can use this to get an | |
729 overview of a part of a program. | |
730 | |
731 To hide lines, type @kbd{C-x $} (@code{set-selective-display}) with a | |
732 numeric argument @var{n}. Then lines with at least @var{n} columns of | |
733 indentation disappear from the screen. The only indication of their | |
734 presence is that three dots (@samp{@dots{}}) appear at the end of each | |
735 visible line that is followed by one or more hidden ones. | |
736 | |
737 The commands @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} move across the hidden lines as | |
738 if they were not there. | |
739 | |
740 The hidden lines are still present in the buffer, and most editing | |
741 commands see them as usual, so you may find point in the middle of the | |
742 hidden text. When this happens, the cursor appears at the end of the | |
743 previous line, after the three dots. If point is at the end of the | |
744 visible line, before the newline that ends it, the cursor appears before | |
745 the three dots. | |
746 | |
747 To make all lines visible again, type @kbd{C-x $} with no argument. | |
748 | |
749 @vindex selective-display-ellipses | |
750 If you set the variable @code{selective-display-ellipses} to | |
751 @code{nil}, the three dots do not appear at the end of a line that | |
752 precedes hidden lines. Then there is no visible indication of the | |
753 hidden lines. This variable becomes local automatically when set. | |
754 | |
755 @node Optional Mode Line | |
756 @section Optional Mode Line Features | |
757 | |
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759 @cindex display of line number |
25829 | 760 @findex line-number-mode |
761 The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line | |
762 Number mode is enabled. Use the command @kbd{M-x line-number-mode} to | |
763 turn this mode on and off; normally it is on. The line number appears | |
764 before the buffer percentage @var{pos}, with the letter @samp{L} to | |
765 indicate what it is. @xref{Minor Modes}, for more information about | |
766 minor modes and about how to use this command. | |
767 | |
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773 If the buffer is very large (larger than the value of | |
774 @code{line-number-display-limit}), then the line number doesn't appear. | |
775 Emacs doesn't compute the line number when the buffer is large, because | |
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786 @cindex Column Number mode | |
787 @cindex mode, Column Number | |
788 @findex column-number-mode | |
789 You can also display the current column number by turning on Column | |
790 Number mode. It displays the current column number preceded by the | |
791 letter @samp{C}. Type @kbd{M-x column-number-mode} to toggle this mode. | |
792 | |
793 @findex display-time | |
794 @cindex time (on mode line) | |
795 Emacs can optionally display the time and system load in all mode | |
30870 | 796 lines. To enable this feature, type @kbd{M-x display-time} or customize |
797 the option @code{display-time-mode}. The information added to the mode | |
798 line usually appears after the buffer name, before the mode names and | |
799 their parentheses. It looks like this: | |
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801 @example | |
802 @var{hh}:@var{mm}pm @var{l.ll} | |
803 @end example | |
804 | |
805 @noindent | |
806 @vindex display-time-24hr-format | |
807 Here @var{hh} and @var{mm} are the hour and minute, followed always by | |
808 @samp{am} or @samp{pm}. @var{l.ll} is the average number of running | |
809 processes in the whole system recently. (Some fields may be missing if | |
810 your operating system cannot support them.) If you prefer time display | |
811 in 24-hour format, set the variable @code{display-time-24hr-format} | |
812 to @code{t}. | |
813 | |
814 @cindex mail (on mode line) | |
28800 | 815 @vindex display-time-use-mail-icon |
816 @vindex display-time-mail-face | |
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25829 | 819 The word @samp{Mail} appears after the load level if there is mail |
28800 | 820 for you that you have not read yet. On a graphical display you can use |
821 an icon instead of @samp{Mail} by customizing | |
822 @code{display-time-use-mail-icon}; this may save some space on the mode | |
823 line. You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail | |
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854 which window is selected. When the minibuffer is selected, since | |
855 it has no mode line, the window from which you activated the minibuffer | |
856 has its mode line displayed using @code{mode-line}; as a result, | |
857 ordinary entry to the minibuffer does not change any mode lines. | |
858 | |
859 @vindex mode-line-in-non-selected-windows | |
860 You can disable use of @code{mode-line-inactive} by setting variable | |
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865 @section How Text Is Displayed | |
866 @cindex characters (in text) | |
867 | |
868 ASCII printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs | |
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871 | |
872 Some ASCII control characters are displayed in special ways. The | |
873 newline character (octal code 012) is displayed by starting a new line. | |
874 The tab character (octal code 011) is displayed by moving to the next | |
875 tab stop column (normally every 8 columns). | |
876 | |
877 Other ASCII control characters are normally displayed as a caret | |
878 (@samp{^}) followed by the non-control version of the character; thus, | |
879 control-A is displayed as @samp{^A}. | |
880 | |
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882 octal escape sequences; thus, character code 0230 (octal) is displayed | |
883 as @samp{\230}. The display of character codes 0240 through 0377 | |
884 (octal) may be either as escape sequences or as graphics. They do not | |
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887 they are displayed using their graphics (assuming your terminal supports | |
888 them), otherwise as escape sequences. @xref{Single-Byte Character | |
889 Support}. | |
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894 This section contains information for customization only. Beginning | |
895 users should skip it. | |
896 | |
897 @vindex mode-line-inverse-video | |
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906 @vindex inverse-video | |
907 If the variable @code{inverse-video} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
908 to invert all the lines of the display from what they normally are. | |
909 | |
910 @vindex visible-bell | |
911 If the variable @code{visible-bell} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
912 to make the whole screen blink when it would normally make an audible bell | |
913 sound. This variable has no effect if your terminal does not have a way | |
914 to make the screen blink.@refill | |
915 | |
916 @vindex no-redraw-on-reenter | |
917 When you reenter Emacs after suspending, Emacs normally clears the | |
918 screen and redraws the entire display. On some terminals with more than | |
919 one page of memory, it is possible to arrange the termcap entry so that | |
920 the @samp{ti} and @samp{te} strings (output to the terminal when Emacs | |
921 is entered and exited, respectively) switch between pages of memory so | |
922 as to use one page for Emacs and another page for other output. Then | |
923 you might want to set the variable @code{no-redraw-on-reenter} | |
924 non-@code{nil}; this tells Emacs to assume, when resumed, that the | |
925 screen page it is using still contains what Emacs last wrote there. | |
926 | |
927 @vindex echo-keystrokes | |
928 The variable @code{echo-keystrokes} controls the echoing of multi-character | |
929 keys; its value is the number of seconds of pause required to cause echoing | |
930 to start, or zero meaning don't echo at all. @xref{Echo Area}. | |
931 | |
932 @vindex ctl-arrow | |
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933 If the variable @code{ctl-arrow} is @code{nil}, all control characters in |
25829 | 934 the buffer are displayed with octal escape sequences, except for newline |
935 and tab. Altering the value of @code{ctl-arrow} makes it local to the | |
936 current buffer; until that time, the default value is in effect. The | |
937 default is initially @code{t}. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
938 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
939 | |
940 @vindex tab-width | |
941 Normally, a tab character in the buffer is displayed as whitespace which | |
942 extends to the next display tab stop position, and display tab stops come | |
943 at intervals equal to eight spaces. The number of spaces per tab is | |
944 controlled by the variable @code{tab-width}, which is made local by | |
945 changing it, just like @code{ctl-arrow}. Note that how the tab character | |
946 in the buffer is displayed has nothing to do with the definition of | |
947 @key{TAB} as a command. The variable @code{tab-width} must have an | |
948 integer value between 1 and 1000, inclusive. | |
949 | |
950 @c @vindex truncate-lines @c No index entry here, because we have one | |
951 @c in the continuation section. | |
952 If the variable @code{truncate-lines} is non-@code{nil}, then each | |
953 line of text gets just one screen line for display; if the text line is | |
954 too long, display shows only the part that fits. If | |
955 @code{truncate-lines} is @code{nil}, then long text lines display as | |
956 more than one screen line, enough to show the whole text of the line. | |
957 @xref{Continuation Lines}. Altering the value of @code{truncate-lines} | |
958 makes it local to the current buffer; until that time, the default value | |
959 is in effect. The default is initially @code{nil}. | |
960 | |
961 @c @vindex truncate-partial-width-windows @c Idx entry is in Split Windows. | |
962 If the variable @code{truncate-partial-width-windows} is | |
963 non-@code{nil}, it forces truncation rather than continuation in any | |
964 window less than the full width of the screen or frame, regardless of | |
965 the value of @code{truncate-lines}. For information about side-by-side | |
966 windows, see @ref{Split Window}. See also @ref{Display,, Display, | |
967 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
968 | |
969 @vindex baud-rate | |
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970 The variable @code{baud-rate} holds the output speed of the |
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971 terminal, as far as Emacs knows. Setting this variable does not |
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972 change the speed of actual data transmission, but the value is used |
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973 for calculations. On terminals, it affects padding, and decisions |
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974 about whether to scroll part of the screen or redraw it instead. |
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975 It also affects the behavior of incremental search. |
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979 higher value of @code{baud-rate} means that check for pending input |
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982 You can customize the way any particular character code is displayed | |
983 by means of a display table. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
984 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
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989 in a special shape to say that Emacs is busy. To turn this feature on |
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990 or off, customize the group @code{cursor}. You can also control the |
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991 amount of time Emacs must remain busy before the busy indicator is |
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995 On some text-only terminals, bold face and inverse video together |
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996 result in text that is hard to read. Call the function |
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997 @code{tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors} with a non-@code{nil} |
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998 argument to suppress the effect of bold-face in this case. |
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1027 as wide as the character under the cursor---for example, if the cursor |
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