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3 @c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
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 * Standard Faces:: Emacs' predefined faces. |
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16 * Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces. |
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17 * Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight. |
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18 * Highlight Changes:: Using colors to show where you changed the buffer. |
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20 * Horizontal Scrolling:: Moving text left and right in a window. | |
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22 * Useless Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace. |
25829 | 23 * Follow Mode:: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one. |
24 * Selective Display:: Hiding lines with lots of indentation. | |
25 * Optional Mode Line:: Optional mode line display features. | |
26 * Text Display:: How text characters are normally displayed. | |
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27 * Cursor Display:: Features for displaying the cursor. |
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28 * Display Custom:: Information on variables for customizing display. |
25829 | 29 @end menu |
30 | |
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31 @node Faces |
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32 @section Using Multiple Typefaces |
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33 @cindex faces |
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35 You can specify various styles for displaying text using |
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36 @dfn{faces}. Each face can specify various @dfn{face attributes}, |
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37 such as the font family, the height, weight and slant of the |
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38 characters, the foreground and background color, and underlining or |
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39 overlining. A face does not have to specify all of these attributes; |
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40 often it inherits most of them from another face. |
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42 On a window system, all the Emacs face attributes are meaningful. |
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43 On a character terminal, only some of them work. Some character |
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44 terminals support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes; some |
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45 support colors. Character terminals generally do not support changing |
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46 the height and width or the font family. |
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48 The easiest way to use faces is to turn on Font Lock mode. |
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49 @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about Font Lock mode and |
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50 syntactic highlighting. You can print out the buffer with the |
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51 highlighting that appears on your screen using the command |
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52 @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. @xref{PostScript}. |
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54 Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode) |
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55 will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one |
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56 face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening. This includes |
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57 the console on GNU/Linux, an @code{xterm} which supports colors, the |
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58 MS-DOS display (@pxref{MS-DOS}), and the MS-Windows version invoked with |
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59 the @option{-nw} option. Emacs determines automatically whether the |
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60 terminal has this capability. |
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62 You control the appearance of a part of the text in the buffer by |
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63 specifying the face or faces to use for it. The style of display used |
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64 for any given character is determined by combining the attributes of |
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65 all the applicable faces specified for that character. Any attribute |
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67 whose attributes reflect the default settings of the frame itself. |
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69 Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several |
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70 commands and menus for specifying faces for text in the buffer. |
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71 @xref{Format Faces}, for how to specify the font for text in the |
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72 buffer. @xref{Format Colors}, for how to specify the foreground and |
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75 @cindex face colors, setting |
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76 @findex set-face-foreground |
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78 To alter the appearance of a face, use the customization buffer. |
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79 @xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify |
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80 attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources}). Alternatively, |
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81 you can change the foreground and background colors of a specific face |
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83 These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a face name and a color |
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87 those to be created in the future. (You can also set foreground and |
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91 Emacs can correctly display variable-width fonts, but Emacs commands |
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109 Here are the standard faces for specifying text appearance. You can |
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110 use them on specific text, when you want the effects they produce. |
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128 This face forces use of a particular variable-width font. It's |
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129 reasonable to customize this to use a different variable-width font, |
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130 if you like, but you should not make it a fixed-width font. |
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131 @item shadow |
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132 This face is used for making the text less noticeable than the surrounding |
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133 ordinary text. Usually this can be achieved by using shades of gray in |
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134 contrast with either black or white default foreground color. |
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135 @end table |
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136 |
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137 Here's an incomplete list of faces used to highlight parts of the |
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138 text temporarily for specific purposes. (Many other modes define |
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139 their own faces for this purpose.) |
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140 |
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141 @table @code |
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142 @item highlight |
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143 This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes. |
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144 For example, mouse-sensitive text is highlighted using this face. |
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145 @item mode-line-highlight |
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146 Like @code{highlight}, but used for portions of text on mode lines. |
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147 @item isearch |
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148 This face is used for highlighting Isearch matches. |
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149 @item lazy-highlight |
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150 This face is used for lazy highlighting of Isearch and Query Replace |
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151 matches other than the current one. |
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152 @item region |
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153 This face is used for displaying a selected region (when Transient Mark |
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154 mode is enabled---see below). |
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155 @item secondary-selection |
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156 This face is used for displaying a secondary X selection (@pxref{Secondary |
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157 Selection}). |
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158 @item trailing-whitespace |
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159 The face for highlighting excess spaces and tabs at the end of a line |
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160 when @code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-@code{nil}; see |
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161 @ref{Useless Whitespace}. |
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162 @item nobreak-space |
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163 The face for displaying the character ``nobreak space''. |
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164 @item escape-glyph |
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165 The face for highlighting the @samp{\} or @samp{^} that indicates |
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166 a control character. It's also used when @samp{\} indicates a |
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167 nobreak space or nobreak (soft) hyphen. |
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170 @cindex @code{region} face |
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171 When Transient Mark mode is enabled, the text of the region is |
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172 highlighted when the mark is active. This uses the face named |
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173 @code{region}; you can control the style of highlighting by changing the |
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174 style of this face (@pxref{Face Customization}). @xref{Transient Mark}, |
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175 for more information about Transient Mark mode and activation and |
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176 deactivation of the mark. |
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177 |
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178 These faces control the appearance of parts of the Emacs frame. |
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179 They exist as faces to provide a consistent way to customize the |
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180 appearance of these parts of the frame. |
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181 |
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182 @table @code |
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183 @item mode-line |
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184 @itemx modeline |
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185 This face is used for the mode line of the currently selected window, |
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186 and for menu bars when toolkit menus are not used. By default, it's |
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187 drawn with shadows for a ``raised'' effect on window systems, and |
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188 drawn as the inverse of the default face on non-windowed terminals. |
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189 @code{modeline} is an alias for the @code{mode-line} face, for |
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190 compatibility with old Emacs versions. |
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191 @item mode-line-inactive |
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192 Like @code{mode-line}, but used for mode lines of the windows other |
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193 than the selected one (if @code{mode-line-in-non-selected-windows} is |
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194 non-@code{nil}). This face inherits from @code{mode-line}, so changes |
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195 in that face affect mode lines in all windows. |
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196 @item header-line |
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197 Similar to @code{mode-line} for a window's header line. Most modes |
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198 don't use the header line, but some special modes, such the Info mode, do. |
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199 @item vertical-border |
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202 on character terminals. On window systems the foreground color of |
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204 scrollbars. |
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205 @item minibuffer-prompt |
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206 @cindex @code{minibuffer-prompt} face |
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207 @vindex minibuffer-prompt-properties |
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208 This face is used for the prompt strings displayed in the minibuffer. |
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209 By default, Emacs automatically adds this face to the value of |
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210 @code{minibuffer-prompt-properties}, which is a list of text |
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211 properties used to display the prompt text. |
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212 @item fringe |
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213 @cindex @code{fringe} face |
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214 The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows on graphic |
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215 displays. (The fringes are the narrow portions of the Emacs frame |
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216 between the text area and the window's right and left borders.) |
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217 @xref{Fringes}. |
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218 @item scroll-bar |
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219 This face determines the visual appearance of the scroll bar. |
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220 @xref{Scroll Bars}. |
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221 @item border |
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222 This face determines the color of the frame border. |
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223 @item cursor |
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224 This face determines the color of the cursor. |
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225 @item mouse |
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226 This face determines the color of the mouse pointer. |
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227 @item tool-bar |
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228 This is the basic tool-bar face. No text appears in the tool bar, but the |
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229 colors of this face affect the appearance of tool bar icons. @xref{Tool Bars}. |
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230 @item tooltip |
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231 This face is used for tooltips. @xref{Tooltips}. |
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232 @item menu |
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233 @cindex menu bar appearance |
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234 @cindex @code{menu} face, no effect if customized |
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269 customize the variable @code{global-font-lock-mode} using the Customize |
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270 interface (@pxref{Easy Customization}), or use the function |
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282 If you have disabled Global Font Lock mode, you can still enable font |
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284 @code{turn-on-font-lock} to the mode hooks (@pxref{Hooks}). For |
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285 example, to enable Font Lock mode for editing C files, you can do this: |
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287 @example |
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291 Font Lock mode uses several specifically named faces to do its job, |
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292 including @code{font-lock-string-face}, @code{font-lock-comment-face}, |
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294 @kbd{M-x customize-group @key{RET} font-lock-faces @key{RET}}. |
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296 To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify |
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302 Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} |
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304 @xref{Faces}. The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all |
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305 the faces currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock. |
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308 Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as |
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319 example, to use level 1 for C/C++ modes, and the default level |
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324 '((c-mode . 1) (c++-mode . 1))) |
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379 @cindex just-in-time (JIT) font-lock |
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391 @node Highlight Interactively |
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392 @section Interactive Highlighting by Matching |
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393 @cindex highlighting by matching |
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394 @cindex interactive highlighting |
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397 regular expression. For example, you might wish to see all the |
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398 references to a certain variable in a program source file, or highlight |
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399 certain parts in a voluminous output of some program, or make certain |
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407 highlight. You control Hi-lock mode with these commands: |
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409 @table @kbd |
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410 @item C-x w h @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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411 @kindex C-x w h |
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412 @findex highlight-regexp |
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413 Highlight text that matches |
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415 By using this command more than once, you can highlight various |
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418 @item C-x w r @var{regexp} @key{RET} |
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419 @kindex C-x w r |
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421 Unhighlight @var{regexp} (@code{unhighlight-regexp}). You must enter |
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426 @item C-x w l @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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435 @kindex C-x w b |
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437 Insert all the current highlighting regexp/face pairs into the buffer |
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438 at point, with comment delimiters to prevent them from changing your |
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440 @code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns} command. |
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443 Hi-lock mode is enabled, or whenever you use the @kbd{M-x |
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455 @code{hi-lock-exclude-modes}. |
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456 @end table |
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462 Use @kbd{M-x highlight-changes-mode} to enable a minor mode |
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467 @section Scrolling | |
468 | |
469 If a buffer contains text that is too large to fit entirely within a | |
470 window that is displaying the buffer, Emacs shows a contiguous portion of | |
471 the text. The portion shown always contains point. | |
472 | |
473 @cindex scrolling | |
474 @dfn{Scrolling} means moving text up or down in the window so that | |
475 different parts of the text are visible. Scrolling forward means that text | |
476 moves up, and new text appears at the bottom. Scrolling backward moves | |
477 text down and new text appears at the top. | |
478 | |
479 Scrolling happens automatically if you move point past the bottom or top | |
480 of the window. You can also explicitly request scrolling with the commands | |
481 in this section. | |
482 | |
483 @table @kbd | |
484 @item C-l | |
485 Clear screen and redisplay, scrolling the selected window to center | |
486 point vertically within it (@code{recenter}). | |
487 @item C-v | |
488 Scroll forward (a windowful or a specified number of lines) (@code{scroll-up}). | |
489 @item @key{NEXT} | |
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492 @item M-v | |
493 Scroll backward (@code{scroll-down}). | |
494 @item @key{PRIOR} | |
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497 @item @var{arg} C-l | |
498 Scroll so point is on line @var{arg} (@code{recenter}). | |
499 @item C-M-l | |
500 Scroll heuristically to bring useful information onto the screen | |
501 (@code{reposition-window}). | |
502 @end table | |
503 | |
504 @kindex C-l | |
505 @findex recenter | |
506 The most basic scrolling command is @kbd{C-l} (@code{recenter}) with | |
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510 screen is garbled (@pxref{Screen Garbled}). |
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512 @kindex C-v | |
513 @kindex M-v | |
514 @kindex NEXT | |
515 @kindex PRIOR | |
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517 @kindex PAGEUP |
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519 @findex scroll-down | |
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522 (@code{scroll-up}) with no argument. This scrolls forward by nearly |
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523 the whole window height. The effect is to take the two lines at the |
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524 bottom of the window and put them at the top, followed by nearly a |
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525 whole windowful of lines that were not previously visible. If point |
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526 was in the text that scrolled off the top, it ends up at the new top |
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527 of the window. |
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530 a similar way, also with overlap. The number of lines of overlap | |
531 across a @kbd{C-v} or @kbd{M-v} is controlled by the variable | |
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532 @code{next-screen-context-lines}; by default, it is 2. The function |
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533 keys @key{NEXT} and @key{PRIOR}, or @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP}, |
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534 are equivalent to @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v}. |
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536 The commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} with a numeric argument scroll |
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537 the text in the selected window up or down a few lines. @kbd{C-v} |
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538 with an argument moves the text and point up, together, that many |
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539 lines; it brings the same number of new lines into view at the bottom |
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540 of the window. @kbd{M-v} with numeric argument scrolls the text |
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541 downward, bringing that many new lines into view at the top of the |
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542 window. @kbd{C-v} with a negative argument is like @kbd{M-v} and vice |
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543 versa. |
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545 The names of scroll commands are based on the direction that the |
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546 text moves in the window. Thus, the command to scroll forward is |
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547 called @code{scroll-up} because it moves the text upward on the |
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548 screen. The keys @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP} derive their names |
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549 and customary meanings from a different convention that developed |
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550 elsewhere; hence the strange result that @key{PAGEDOWN} runs |
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551 @code{scroll-up}. |
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553 @vindex scroll-preserve-screen-position | |
554 Some users like the full-screen scroll commands to keep point at the | |
555 same screen line. To enable this behavior, set the variable | |
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557 this mode, when scrolling shifts point off the screen, or into the |
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558 scrolling margins, Emacs moves point to keep the same vertical |
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559 position within the window. This mode is convenient for browsing |
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563 screen in order to move point to the text there. |
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565 Another way to do scrolling is with @kbd{C-l} with a numeric argument. | |
566 @kbd{C-l} does not clear the screen when given an argument; it only scrolls | |
567 the selected window. With a positive argument @var{n}, it repositions text | |
568 to put point @var{n} lines down from the top. An argument of zero puts | |
569 point on the very top line. Point does not move with respect to the text; | |
570 rather, the text and point move rigidly on the screen. @kbd{C-l} with a | |
571 negative argument puts point that many lines from the bottom of the window. | |
572 For example, @kbd{C-u - 1 C-l} puts point on the bottom line, and @kbd{C-u | |
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574 point at the center (vertically) of the selected window. |
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576 @kindex C-M-l | |
577 @findex reposition-window | |
578 The @kbd{C-M-l} command (@code{reposition-window}) scrolls the current | |
579 window heuristically in a way designed to get useful information onto | |
580 the screen. For example, in a Lisp file, this command tries to get the | |
581 entire current defun onto the screen if possible. | |
582 | |
583 @vindex scroll-conservatively | |
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584 Scrolling happens automatically when point moves out of the visible |
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585 portion of the text. Normally, automatic scrolling centers point |
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586 vertically within the window. However, if you set |
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587 @code{scroll-conservatively} to a small number @var{n}, then if you |
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588 move point just a little off the screen---less than @var{n} |
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589 lines---then Emacs scrolls the text just far enough to bring point |
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590 back on screen. By default, @code{scroll-conservatively} is 0. |
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596 how aggressively it scrolls, by setting the variables |
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597 @code{scroll-up-aggressively} and @code{scroll-down-aggressively}. |
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598 The value of @code{scroll-up-aggressively} should be either |
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599 @code{nil}, or a fraction @var{f} between 0 and 1. A fraction |
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600 specifies where on the screen to put point when scrolling upward. |
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601 More precisely, when a window scrolls up because point is above the |
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602 window start, the new start position is chosen to put point @var{f} |
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603 part of the window height from the top. The larger @var{f}, the more |
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604 aggressive the scrolling. |
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606 @code{nil}, which is the default, scrolls to put point at the center. |
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607 So it is equivalent to .5. |
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609 Likewise, @code{scroll-down-aggressively} is used for scrolling |
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612 @code{scroll-up-aggressively}, a larger value is more aggressive. |
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615 The variable @code{scroll-margin} restricts how close point can come | |
616 to the top or bottom of a window. Its value is a number of screen | |
617 lines; if point comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the | |
618 window, Emacs recenters the window. By default, @code{scroll-margin} is | |
619 0. | |
620 | |
621 @node Horizontal Scrolling | |
622 @section Horizontal Scrolling | |
623 @cindex horizontal scrolling | |
624 | |
625 @dfn{Horizontal scrolling} means shifting all the lines sideways | |
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628 text lines are truncated rather than continued (@pxref{Display |
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629 Custom}). Whenever a window shows truncated lines, Emacs |
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632 commands to do explicit horizontal scrolling. |
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634 @table @kbd | |
635 @item C-x < | |
636 Scroll text in current window to the left (@code{scroll-left}). | |
637 @item C-x > | |
638 Scroll to the right (@code{scroll-right}). | |
639 @end table | |
640 | |
641 @kindex C-x < | |
642 @kindex C-x > | |
643 @findex scroll-left | |
644 @findex scroll-right | |
645 The command @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected | |
646 window to the left by @var{n} columns with argument @var{n}. This moves | |
647 part of the beginning of each line off the left edge of the window. | |
648 With no argument, it scrolls by almost the full width of the window (two | |
649 columns less, to be precise). | |
650 | |
651 @kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right. The | |
652 window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is displayed | |
653 normally (with each line starting at the window's left margin); | |
654 attempting to do so has no effect. This means that you don't have to | |
655 calculate the argument precisely for @w{@kbd{C-x >}}; any sufficiently large | |
656 argument will restore the normal display. | |
657 | |
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708 for the selected frame, use @kbd{M-x set-fringe-style}. |
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710 @node Useless Whitespace |
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713 @cindex trailing whitespace |
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714 @cindex whitespace, trailing |
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715 @vindex show-trailing-whitespace |
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716 It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line, or |
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719 special circumstances where it matters. |
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721 You can make trailing whitespace at the end of a line visible on the |
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722 screen by setting the buffer-local variable |
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723 @code{show-trailing-whitespace} to @code{t}. Then Emacs displays |
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724 trailing whitespace in the face @code{trailing-whitespace}. |
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726 This feature does not apply when point is at the end of the line |
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730 the location of point is enough to show you that the spaces are |
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731 present. |
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733 @findex delete-trailing-whitespace |
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735 accessible portion (@pxref{Narrowing}), type @kbd{M-x |
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736 delete-trailing-whitespace @key{RET}}. (This command does not remove |
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739 @vindex indicate-empty-lines |
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747 this image in the fringe. |
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757 @section Follow Mode | |
758 @cindex Follow mode | |
759 @cindex mode, Follow | |
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769 two windows, or scroll either one; the other window follows it. |
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772 window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects | |
773 the other window---again, treating the two as if they were parts of | |
774 one large window. | |
775 | |
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777 | |
778 @node Selective Display | |
779 @section Selective Display | |
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782 @kindex C-x $ | |
783 | |
784 Emacs has the ability to hide lines indented more than a certain number | |
785 of columns (you specify how many columns). You can use this to get an | |
786 overview of a part of a program. | |
787 | |
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793 followed by one or more hidden ones. |
25829 | 794 |
795 The commands @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} move across the hidden lines as | |
796 if they were not there. | |
797 | |
798 The hidden lines are still present in the buffer, and most editing | |
799 commands see them as usual, so you may find point in the middle of the | |
800 hidden text. When this happens, the cursor appears at the end of the | |
801 previous line, after the three dots. If point is at the end of the | |
802 visible line, before the newline that ends it, the cursor appears before | |
803 the three dots. | |
804 | |
805 To make all lines visible again, type @kbd{C-x $} with no argument. | |
806 | |
807 @vindex selective-display-ellipses | |
808 If you set the variable @code{selective-display-ellipses} to | |
809 @code{nil}, the three dots do not appear at the end of a line that | |
810 precedes hidden lines. Then there is no visible indication of the | |
811 hidden lines. This variable becomes local automatically when set. | |
812 | |
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813 See also @ref{Outline Mode} for another way to hide part of |
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814 the text in a buffer. |
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25829 | 816 @node Optional Mode Line |
817 @section Optional Mode Line Features | |
818 | |
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819 @cindex buffer size display |
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820 @cindex display of buffer size |
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821 @findex size-indication-mode |
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822 The buffer percentage @var{pos} indicates the percentage of the |
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823 buffer above the top of the window. You can additionally display the |
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824 size of the buffer by typing @kbd{M-x size-indication-mode} to turn on |
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825 Size Indication mode. The size will be displayed immediately |
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826 following the buffer percentage like this: |
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827 |
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828 @example |
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829 @var{POS} of @var{SIZE} |
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830 @end example |
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831 |
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832 @noindent |
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833 Here @var{SIZE} is the human readable representation of the number of |
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834 characters in the buffer, which means that @samp{k} for 10^3, @samp{M} |
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835 for 10^6, @samp{G} for 10^9, etc., are used to abbreviate. |
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836 |
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837 @cindex narrowing, and buffer size display |
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838 If you have narrowed the buffer (@pxref{Narrowing}), the size of the |
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839 accessible part of the buffer is shown. |
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841 @cindex line number display |
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842 @cindex display of line number |
25829 | 843 @findex line-number-mode |
844 The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line | |
845 Number mode is enabled. Use the command @kbd{M-x line-number-mode} to | |
846 turn this mode on and off; normally it is on. The line number appears | |
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847 after the buffer percentage @var{pos}, with the letter @samp{L} to |
25829 | 848 indicate what it is. @xref{Minor Modes}, for more information about |
849 minor modes and about how to use this command. | |
850 | |
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851 @cindex narrowing, and line number display |
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852 If you have narrowed the buffer (@pxref{Narrowing}), the displayed |
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853 line number is relative to the accessible portion of the buffer. |
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854 |
25829 | 855 @vindex line-number-display-limit |
856 If the buffer is very large (larger than the value of | |
857 @code{line-number-display-limit}), then the line number doesn't appear. | |
858 Emacs doesn't compute the line number when the buffer is large, because | |
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859 that would be too slow. Set it to @code{nil} to remove the limit. |
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860 |
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861 @vindex line-number-display-limit-width |
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862 Line-number computation can also be slow if the lines in the buffer |
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863 are too long. For this reason, Emacs normally doesn't display line |
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864 numbers if the average width, in characters, of lines near point is |
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865 larger than the value of the variable |
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866 @code{line-number-display-limit-width}. The default value is 200 |
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867 characters. |
25829 | 868 |
869 @cindex Column Number mode | |
870 @cindex mode, Column Number | |
871 @findex column-number-mode | |
872 You can also display the current column number by turning on Column | |
873 Number mode. It displays the current column number preceded by the | |
874 letter @samp{C}. Type @kbd{M-x column-number-mode} to toggle this mode. | |
875 | |
876 @findex display-time | |
877 @cindex time (on mode line) | |
878 Emacs can optionally display the time and system load in all mode | |
30870 | 879 lines. To enable this feature, type @kbd{M-x display-time} or customize |
880 the option @code{display-time-mode}. The information added to the mode | |
881 line usually appears after the buffer name, before the mode names and | |
882 their parentheses. It looks like this: | |
25829 | 883 |
884 @example | |
885 @var{hh}:@var{mm}pm @var{l.ll} | |
886 @end example | |
887 | |
888 @noindent | |
889 @vindex display-time-24hr-format | |
890 Here @var{hh} and @var{mm} are the hour and minute, followed always by | |
891 @samp{am} or @samp{pm}. @var{l.ll} is the average number of running | |
892 processes in the whole system recently. (Some fields may be missing if | |
893 your operating system cannot support them.) If you prefer time display | |
894 in 24-hour format, set the variable @code{display-time-24hr-format} | |
895 to @code{t}. | |
896 | |
897 @cindex mail (on mode line) | |
28800 | 898 @vindex display-time-use-mail-icon |
899 @vindex display-time-mail-face | |
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900 @vindex display-time-mail-file |
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901 @vindex display-time-mail-directory |
25829 | 902 The word @samp{Mail} appears after the load level if there is mail |
28800 | 903 for you that you have not read yet. On a graphical display you can use |
904 an icon instead of @samp{Mail} by customizing | |
905 @code{display-time-use-mail-icon}; this may save some space on the mode | |
906 line. You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail | |
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907 indicator prominent. Use @code{display-time-mail-file} to specify |
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908 the mail file to check, or set @code{display-time-mail-directory} |
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909 to specify the directory to check for incoming mail (any nonempty regular |
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910 file in the directory is considered as ``newly arrived mail''). |
25829 | 911 |
39267 | 912 @cindex mode line, 3D appearance |
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913 @cindex attributes of mode line, changing |
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914 @cindex non-integral number of lines in a window |
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915 By default, the mode line is drawn on graphics displays with |
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916 3D-style highlighting, like that of a button when it is not being |
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917 pressed. If you don't like this effect, you can disable the 3D |
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918 highlighting of the mode line, by customizing the attributes of the |
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919 @code{mode-line} face in your @file{.emacs} init file, like this: |
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920 |
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921 @example |
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922 (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :box nil) |
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923 @end example |
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924 |
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925 @noindent |
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926 Alternatively, you can turn off the box attribute in your |
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927 @file{.Xdefaults} file: |
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928 |
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929 @example |
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930 Emacs.mode-line.AttributeBox: off |
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931 @end example |
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932 |
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933 @cindex non-selected windows, mode line appearance |
43289 | 934 By default, the mode line of nonselected windows is displayed in a |
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935 different face, called @code{mode-line-inactive}. Only the selected |
43289 | 936 window is displayed in the @code{mode-line} face. This helps show |
937 which window is selected. When the minibuffer is selected, since | |
938 it has no mode line, the window from which you activated the minibuffer | |
939 has its mode line displayed using @code{mode-line}; as a result, | |
940 ordinary entry to the minibuffer does not change any mode lines. | |
941 | |
942 @vindex mode-line-in-non-selected-windows | |
943 You can disable use of @code{mode-line-inactive} by setting variable | |
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944 @code{mode-line-in-non-selected-windows} to @code{nil}; then all mode |
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945 lines are displayed in the @code{mode-line} face. |
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946 |
25829 | 947 @node Text Display |
948 @section How Text Is Displayed | |
949 @cindex characters (in text) | |
950 | |
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951 @acronym{ASCII} printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs |
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952 buffers are displayed with their graphics, as are non-ASCII multibyte |
25829 | 953 printing characters (octal codes above 0400). |
954 | |
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955 Some @acronym{ASCII} control characters are displayed in special ways. The |
25829 | 956 newline character (octal code 012) is displayed by starting a new line. |
957 The tab character (octal code 011) is displayed by moving to the next | |
958 tab stop column (normally every 8 columns). | |
959 | |
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960 Other @acronym{ASCII} control characters are normally displayed as a caret |
25829 | 961 (@samp{^}) followed by the non-control version of the character; thus, |
962 control-A is displayed as @samp{^A}. | |
963 | |
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964 Non-@acronym{ASCII} characters 0200 through 0237 (octal) are displayed with |
33744 | 965 octal escape sequences; thus, character code 0230 (octal) is displayed |
966 as @samp{\230}. The display of character codes 0240 through 0377 | |
967 (octal) may be either as escape sequences or as graphics. They do not | |
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968 normally occur in multibyte buffers, but if they do, they are displayed |
33744 | 969 as Latin-1 graphics. In unibyte mode, if you enable European display |
970 they are displayed using their graphics (assuming your terminal supports | |
971 them), otherwise as escape sequences. @xref{Single-Byte Character | |
972 Support}. | |
25829 | 973 |
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974 @vindex nobreak-char-display |
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975 @cindex no-break space, display |
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976 @cindex no-break hyphen, display |
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977 @cindex soft hyphen, display |
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978 Some character sets define ``no-break'' versions of the space and |
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979 hyphen characters, which are used where a line should not be broken. |
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980 Emacs normally displays these characters with special faces |
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981 (respectively, @code{nobreak-space} and @code{escape-glyph}) to |
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982 distinguish them from ordinary spaces and hyphens. You can turn off |
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983 this feature by setting the variable @code{nobreak-char-display} to |
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984 @code{nil}. If you set the variable to any other value, that means to |
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985 prefix these characters with an escape character. |
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987 @node Cursor Display |
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988 @section Displaying the Cursor |
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990 @findex blink-cursor-mode |
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991 @vindex blink-cursor-alist |
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992 @cindex cursor, locating visually |
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993 @cindex cursor, blinking |
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994 You can customize the cursor's color, and whether it blinks, using |
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995 the @code{cursor} Custom group (@pxref{Easy Customization}). On |
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996 graphical terminals, the command @kbd{M-x blink-cursor-mode} enables |
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997 or disables the blinking of the cursor. (On text terminals, the |
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998 terminal itself blinks the cursor, and Emacs has no control over it.) |
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999 You can control how the cursor appears when it blinks off by setting |
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1000 the variable @code{blink-cursor-alist}. |
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1002 @cindex cursor in non-selected windows |
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1003 @vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows |
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1004 Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows in the ``off'' |
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1005 state, with the same appearance as when the blinking cursor blinks |
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1006 ``off''. For a box cursor, this is a hollow box; for a bar cursor, |
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1007 this is a thinner bar. To turn off cursors in non-selected windows, |
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1008 customize the variable @code{cursor-in-non-selected-windows} and assign |
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1009 it a @code{nil} value. |
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1011 @vindex x-stretch-cursor |
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1012 @cindex wide block cursor |
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1013 On graphical terminals, Emacs can optionally draw the block cursor |
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1014 as wide as the character under the cursor---for example, if the cursor |
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1015 is on a tab character, it would cover the full width occupied by that |
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1016 tab character. To enable this feature, set the variable |
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1017 @code{x-stretch-cursor} to a non-@code{nil} value. |
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1019 @findex hl-line-mode |
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1020 @findex global-hl-line-mode |
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1021 @cindex highlight current line |
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1022 If you find it hard to see the cursor, you might like HL Line mode, |
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1023 a minor mode that highlights the line containing point. Use @kbd{M-x |
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1024 hl-line-mode} to enable or disable it in the current buffer. @kbd{M-x |
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1025 global-hl-line-mode} enables or disables the same mode globally. |
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1027 @node Display Custom |
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1028 @section Customization of Display |
25829 | 1029 |
1030 This section contains information for customization only. Beginning | |
1031 users should skip it. | |
1032 | |
1033 @vindex inverse-video | |
1034 If the variable @code{inverse-video} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
1035 to invert all the lines of the display from what they normally are. | |
1036 | |
1037 @vindex visible-bell | |
1038 If the variable @code{visible-bell} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
1039 to make the whole screen blink when it would normally make an audible bell | |
1040 sound. This variable has no effect if your terminal does not have a way | |
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1041 to make the screen blink. |
25829 | 1042 |
1043 @vindex no-redraw-on-reenter | |
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1044 On a text terminal, when you reenter Emacs after suspending, Emacs |
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1045 normally clears the screen and redraws the entire display. On some |
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1046 terminals with more than one page of memory, it is possible to arrange |
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1047 the termcap entry so that the @samp{ti} and @samp{te} strings (output |
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1048 to the terminal when Emacs is entered and exited, respectively) switch |
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1049 between pages of memory so as to use one page for Emacs and another |
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1050 page for other output. Then you might want to set the variable |
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1051 @code{no-redraw-on-reenter} non-@code{nil}; this tells Emacs to |
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1052 assume, when resumed, that the screen page it is using still contains |
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1053 what Emacs last wrote there. |
25829 | 1054 |
1055 @vindex echo-keystrokes | |
1056 The variable @code{echo-keystrokes} controls the echoing of multi-character | |
1057 keys; its value is the number of seconds of pause required to cause echoing | |
1058 to start, or zero meaning don't echo at all. @xref{Echo Area}. | |
1059 | |
1060 @vindex ctl-arrow | |
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1061 If the variable @code{ctl-arrow} is @code{nil}, all control characters in |
25829 | 1062 the buffer are displayed with octal escape sequences, except for newline |
1063 and tab. Altering the value of @code{ctl-arrow} makes it local to the | |
1064 current buffer; until that time, the default value is in effect. The | |
1065 default is initially @code{t}. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
1066 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
1067 | |
1068 @vindex tab-width | |
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1069 @vindex default-tab-width |
25829 | 1070 Normally, a tab character in the buffer is displayed as whitespace which |
1071 extends to the next display tab stop position, and display tab stops come | |
1072 at intervals equal to eight spaces. The number of spaces per tab is | |
1073 controlled by the variable @code{tab-width}, which is made local by | |
1074 changing it, just like @code{ctl-arrow}. Note that how the tab character | |
1075 in the buffer is displayed has nothing to do with the definition of | |
1076 @key{TAB} as a command. The variable @code{tab-width} must have an | |
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1077 integer value between 1 and 1000, inclusive. The variable |
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1078 @code{default-tab-width} controls the default value of this variable |
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1079 for buffers where you have not set it locally. |
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1081 @cindex truncation |
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1082 @cindex line truncation, and fringes |
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1083 As an alternative to continuation, Emacs can display long lines by |
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1084 @dfn{truncation}. This means that all the characters that do not fit |
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1085 in the width of the screen or window do not appear at all. On |
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1086 graphical terminals, a small straight arrow in the fringe indicates |
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1087 truncation at either end of the line. On text terminals, @samp{$} |
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1088 appears in the first column when there is text truncated to the left, |
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1089 and in the last column when there is text truncated to the right. |
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1091 @vindex truncate-lines |
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1092 @findex toggle-truncate-lines |
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1093 Horizontal scrolling automatically causes line truncation |
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1094 (@pxref{Horizontal Scrolling}). You can explicitly enable line |
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1095 truncation for a particular buffer with the command @kbd{M-x |
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1096 toggle-truncate-lines}. This works by locally changing the variable |
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1097 @code{truncate-lines}. If that variable is non-@code{nil}, long lines |
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1098 are truncated; if it is @code{nil}, they are continued onto multiple |
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1099 screen lines. Setting the variable @code{truncate-lines} in any way |
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1100 makes it local to the current buffer; until that time, the default |
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1101 value is in effect. The default value is normally @code{nil}. |
25829 | 1102 |
1103 @c @vindex truncate-partial-width-windows @c Idx entry is in Split Windows. | |
1104 If the variable @code{truncate-partial-width-windows} is | |
1105 non-@code{nil}, it forces truncation rather than continuation in any | |
1106 window less than the full width of the screen or frame, regardless of | |
1107 the value of @code{truncate-lines}. For information about side-by-side | |
1108 windows, see @ref{Split Window}. See also @ref{Display,, Display, | |
1109 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
1110 | |
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1111 @vindex overflow-newline-into-fringe |
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1112 If the variable @code{overflow-newline-into-fringe} is |
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1113 non-@code{nil} on a window system, it specifies that lines which are |
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1114 exactly as wide as the window (not counting the final newline |
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1115 character) shall not be broken into two lines on the display (with |
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1116 just the newline on the second line). Instead, the newline |
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1117 overflows into the right fringe, and the cursor will be displayed in |
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1118 the fringe when positioned on that newline. |
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1120 @vindex indicate-buffer-boundaries |
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1121 On a window system, Emacs may indicate the buffer boundaries in the |
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1122 fringes. The buffer boundaries, i.e. first and last line in the |
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1123 buffer, can be marked with angle bitmaps in the left or right fringe. |
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1125 and bottom of the left or right fringe if the window can be scrolled |
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1126 in either direction. |
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1128 The buffer-local variable @code{indicate-buffer-boundaries} controls |
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1129 how the buffer boundaries and window scrolling is indicated in the |
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1130 fringes. |
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1132 If the value is @code{left} or @code{right}, both angle and arrow |
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1133 bitmaps are displayed in the left or right fringe, respectively. |
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1135 If value is an alist, each element @code{(@var{indicator} . |
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1136 @var{position})} specifies the position of one of the indicators. |
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1137 The @var{indicator} must be one of @code{top}, @code{bottom}, |
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1138 @code{up}, @code{down}, or @code{t} which specifies the default |
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1139 position for the indicators not present in the alist. |
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1140 The @var{position} is one of @code{left}, @code{right}, or @code{nil} |
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1141 which specifies not to show this indicator. |
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1143 For example, @code{((top . left) (t . right))} places the top angle |
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1144 bitmap in left fringe, the bottom angle bitmap in right fringe, and |
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1145 both arrow bitmaps in right fringe. To show just the angle bitmaps in |
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1146 the left fringe, but no arrow bitmaps, use @code{((top . left) |
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1147 (bottom . left))}. |
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1149 @vindex default-indicate-buffer-boundaries |
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1150 The value of the variable @code{default-indicate-buffer-boundaries} |
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1151 is the default value for @code{indicate-buffer-boundaries} in buffers |
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1152 that do not override it. |
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1155 The variable @anchor{baud-rate}@code{baud-rate} holds the output speed of the |
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1156 terminal, as far as Emacs knows. Setting this variable does not |
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1157 change the speed of actual data transmission, but the value is used |
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1158 for calculations. On terminals, it affects padding, and decisions |
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1159 about whether to scroll part of the screen or redraw it instead. |
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1160 It also affects the behavior of incremental search. |
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1163 frequently to look for pending input during display updating. A |
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1164 higher value of @code{baud-rate} means that check for pending input |
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1167 You can customize the way any particular character code is displayed | |
1168 by means of a display table. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
1169 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
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1174 in a special shape to say that Emacs is busy. To turn this feature on |
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1176 amount of time Emacs must remain busy before the busy indicator is |
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1180 On some text-only terminals, bold face and inverse video together |
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1181 result in text that is hard to read. Call the function |
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1182 @code{tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors} with a non-@code{nil} |
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1183 argument to suppress the effect of bold-face in this case. |
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1186 arch-tag: 2219f910-2ff0-4521-b059-1bd231a536c4 | |
1187 @end ignore |