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1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
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2 @c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 1997, 2000, 2001 |
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3 @c 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 * 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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18 * Trailing Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace. |
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20 * Horizontal Scrolling:: Moving text left and right in a window. | |
21 * Follow Mode:: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one. | |
22 * Selective Display:: Hiding lines with lots of indentation. | |
23 * Optional Mode Line:: Optional mode line display features. | |
24 * Text Display:: How text characters are normally displayed. | |
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25 * Display Custom:: Information on variables for customizing display. |
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26 * Cursor Display:: Features for displaying the cursor. |
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28 | |
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29 @node Faces |
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30 @section Using Multiple Typefaces |
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31 @cindex faces |
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32 |
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33 When using Emacs with a window system, you can set up multiple |
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34 styles of displaying characters. Some of the aspects of style that |
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35 you can control are the type font, the foreground color, the |
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36 background color, and whether or not to underline text, and in which |
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37 color. |
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38 |
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39 Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode) |
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40 will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one |
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41 face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening. This includes |
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42 the console on GNU/Linux, an @code{xterm} which supports colors, the |
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43 MS-DOS display (@pxref{MS-DOS}), and the MS-Windows version invoked with |
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44 the @option{-nw} option. Emacs determines automatically whether the |
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45 terminal has this capability. |
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46 |
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47 The way you control display style is by defining named @dfn{faces}. |
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48 Each face can specify various attributes, like the type font's height, |
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49 weight and slant, foreground and background color, and underlining, |
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50 but it does not have to specify all of them. By specifying the face |
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51 or faces to use for a given part of the text in the buffer, you |
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52 control how that text appears. |
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53 |
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54 The style of display used for a given character in the text is |
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55 determined by combining several faces. Any aspect of the display |
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56 style that isn't specified by overlays or text properties comes from a |
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57 default face which inherits its settings from the frame itself. |
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58 |
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59 Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several |
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60 commands and menus for specifying faces. @xref{Format Faces}, for how |
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61 to specify the font for text in the buffer. @xref{Format Colors}, for |
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62 how to specify the foreground and background color. |
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64 To alter the appearance of a face, use the customization buffer. |
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65 @xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify |
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66 attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources X}). |
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67 |
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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 Alternatively, you can change the foreground and background colors |
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72 of a specific face with @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} and @kbd{M-x |
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73 set-face-background}. These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a |
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74 face name and a color name, with completion, and then set that face to |
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75 use the specified color. |
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76 |
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77 @findex list-faces-display |
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78 To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type |
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79 @kbd{M-x list-faces-display}. It's possible for a given face to look |
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80 different in different frames; this command shows the appearance in the |
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81 frame in which you type it. Here's a list of the standardly defined |
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82 faces: |
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84 @table @code |
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85 @item default |
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86 This face is used for ordinary text that doesn't specify any other face. |
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87 @item mode-line |
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88 This face is used for mode lines. By default, it's drawn with shadows |
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89 for a ``raised'' effect on window systems, and drawn as the inverse of |
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90 the default face on non-windowed terminals. @xref{Display Custom}. |
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91 @item header-line |
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92 Similar to @code{mode-line} for a window's header line. Most modes |
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93 don't use the header line, but the Info mode does. |
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94 @item highlight |
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95 This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes. |
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96 For example, mouse-sensitive text is highlighted using this face. |
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97 @item isearch |
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98 This face is used for highlighting Isearch matches. |
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99 @item isearch-lazy-highlight-face |
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100 This face is used for lazy highlighting of Isearch matches other than |
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101 the current one. |
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102 @item region |
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103 This face is used for displaying a selected region (when Transient Mark |
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104 mode is enabled---see below). |
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105 @item secondary-selection |
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106 This face is used for displaying a secondary X selection (@pxref{Secondary |
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107 Selection}). |
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108 @item bold |
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109 This face uses a bold variant of the default font, if it has one. |
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110 @item italic |
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111 This face uses an italic variant of the default font, if it has one. |
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112 @item bold-italic |
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113 This face uses a bold italic variant of the default font, if it has one. |
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114 @item underline |
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115 This face underlines text. |
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116 @item fixed-pitch |
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117 The basic fixed-pitch face. |
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118 @item fringe |
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119 @cindex fringe |
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120 The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows on graphic |
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121 displays. (The fringes are the narrow portions of the Emacs frame |
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122 between the text area and the window's right and left borders.) |
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123 @item scroll-bar |
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124 This face determines the visual appearance of the scroll bar. |
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125 @item border |
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126 This face determines the color of the frame border. |
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127 @item cursor |
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128 This face determines the color of the cursor. |
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129 @item mouse |
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130 This face determines the color of the mouse pointer. |
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138 font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set |
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151 style of this face (@pxref{Face Customization}). @xref{Transient Mark}, |
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155 One easy way to use faces is to turn on Font Lock mode. This minor |
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157 choose faces according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It |
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160 important constructs. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about |
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161 Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. |
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163 You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears |
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168 @section Font Lock mode |
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169 @cindex Font Lock mode |
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170 @cindex mode, Font Lock |
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173 Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular |
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174 buffer, which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces |
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179 or reserved keywords. |
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181 @findex font-lock-mode |
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182 @findex turn-on-font-lock |
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183 The command @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} turns Font Lock mode on or off |
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184 according to the argument, and toggles the mode when it has no argument. |
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185 The function @code{turn-on-font-lock} unconditionally enables Font Lock |
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186 mode. This is useful in mode-hook functions. For example, to enable |
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187 Font Lock mode whenever you edit a C file, you can do this: |
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189 @example |
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190 (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) |
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191 @end example |
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193 @findex global-font-lock-mode |
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194 @vindex global-font-lock-mode |
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195 To turn on Font Lock mode automatically in all modes which support |
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196 it, customize the user option @code{global-font-lock-mode} or use the |
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197 function @code{global-font-lock-mode} in your @file{.emacs} file, like |
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198 this: |
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199 |
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200 @example |
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201 (global-font-lock-mode 1) |
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202 @end example |
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204 Font Lock mode uses several specifically named faces to do its job, |
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205 including @code{font-lock-string-face}, @code{font-lock-comment-face}, |
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206 and others. The easiest way to find them all is to use completion |
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207 on the face name in @code{set-face-foreground}. |
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209 To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify |
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210 different parts of text, just change these faces. There are |
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211 two ways to do it: |
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213 @itemize @bullet |
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214 @item |
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215 Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} |
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216 to change the colors of a particular face used by Font Lock. |
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217 @xref{Faces}. The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all |
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218 the faces currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock. |
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220 @item |
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221 Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as |
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222 described in @ref{Face Customization}. |
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223 @end itemize |
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225 To get the full benefit of Font Lock mode, you need to choose a |
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226 default font which has bold, italic, and bold-italic variants; or else |
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227 you need to have a color or gray-scale screen. |
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229 @vindex font-lock-maximum-decoration |
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230 The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-decoration} specifies the |
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231 preferred level of fontification, for modes that provide multiple |
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232 levels. Level 1 is the least amount of fontification; some modes |
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233 support levels as high as 3. The normal default is ``as high as |
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234 possible.'' You can specify an integer, which applies to all modes, or |
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235 you can specify different numbers for particular major modes; for |
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236 example, to use level 1 for C/C++ modes, and the default level |
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237 otherwise, use this: |
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239 @example |
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240 (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration |
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241 '((c-mode . 1) (c++-mode . 1))) |
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242 @end example |
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244 @vindex font-lock-maximum-size |
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245 Fontification can be too slow for large buffers, so you can suppress |
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246 it. The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-size} specifies a buffer size, |
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247 beyond which buffer fontification is suppressed. |
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249 @c @w is used below to prevent a bad page-break. |
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250 @vindex font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function |
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251 Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification) |
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261 The variable @code{font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function} (always |
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270 slow down redisplay while scrolling, particularly if you are close to |
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273 @findex font-lock-add-keywords |
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274 Font Lock highlighting patterns already exist for many modes, but you |
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276 @code{font-lock-add-keywords}, to add your own highlighting patterns for |
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277 a particular mode. For example, to highlight @samp{FIXME:} words in C |
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278 comments, use this: |
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279 |
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280 @example |
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281 (font-lock-add-keywords |
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282 'c-mode |
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283 '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t))) |
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284 @end example |
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285 |
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286 @node Highlight Changes |
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287 @section Highlight Changes Mode |
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289 @findex highlight-changes-mode |
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290 Use @kbd{M-x highlight-changes-mode} to enable a minor mode |
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292 the buffer were changed most recently. |
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293 |
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294 @node Highlight Interactively |
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295 @section Interactive Highlighting by Matching |
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296 @cindex highlighting by matching |
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297 @cindex interactive highlighting |
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298 |
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299 It is sometimes useful to highlight the strings that match a certain |
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300 regular expression. For example, you might wish to see all the |
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301 references to a certain variable in a program source file, or highlight |
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302 certain parts in a voluminous output of some program, or make certain |
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303 cliches stand out in an article. |
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305 @findex hi-lock-mode |
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306 Use the @kbd{M-x hi-lock-mode} command to turn on a minor mode that |
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308 highlighted. Hi-lock mode works like Font Lock (@pxref{Font Lock}), |
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310 highlight. You control Hi-lock mode with these commands: |
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312 @table @kbd |
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313 @item C-x w h @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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314 @kindex C-x w h |
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315 @findex highlight-regexp |
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316 Highlight text that matches |
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317 @var{regexp} using face @var{face} (@code{highlight-regexp}). |
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318 By using this command more than once, you can highlight various |
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319 parts of the text in different ways. |
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321 @item C-x w r @var{regexp} @key{RET} |
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322 @kindex C-x w r |
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323 @findex unhighlight-regexp |
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324 Unhighlight @var{regexp} (@code{unhighlight-regexp}). You must enter |
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325 one of the regular expressions currently specified for highlighting. |
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326 (You can use completion, or a menu, to enter one of them |
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327 conveniently.) |
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328 |
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329 @item C-x w l @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET} |
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330 @kindex C-x w l |
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331 @findex highlight-lines-matching-regexp |
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332 @cindex lines, highlighting |
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333 @cindex highlighting lines of text |
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334 Highlight lines containing a match for @var{regexp}, using face |
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337 @item C-x w b |
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338 @kindex C-x w b |
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339 @findex hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns |
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340 Insert all the current highlighting regexp/face pairs into the buffer |
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341 at point, with comment delimiters to prevent them from changing your |
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343 @code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns} command. |
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345 These patterns will be read the next time you visit the file while |
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346 Hi-lock mode is enabled, or whenever you use the @kbd{M-x |
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347 hi-lock-find-patterns} command. |
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349 @item C-x w i |
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350 @kindex C-x w i |
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352 @vindex hi-lock-exclude-modes |
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353 Re-read regexp/face pairs in the current buffer |
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354 (@code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns}). The list of pairs is |
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355 found no matter where in the buffer it may be. |
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357 This command does nothing if the major mode is a member of the list |
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358 @code{hi-lock-exclude-modes}. |
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359 @end table |
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361 @node Trailing Whitespace |
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362 @section Trailing Whitespace |
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364 @cindex trailing whitespace |
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366 @vindex show-trailing-whitespace |
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367 It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line without |
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368 realizing it. In most cases, this @dfn{trailing whitespace} has no |
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369 effect, but there are special circumstances where it matters. |
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25829 | 392 @node Scrolling |
393 @section Scrolling | |
394 | |
395 If a buffer contains text that is too large to fit entirely within a | |
396 window that is displaying the buffer, Emacs shows a contiguous portion of | |
397 the text. The portion shown always contains point. | |
398 | |
399 @cindex scrolling | |
400 @dfn{Scrolling} means moving text up or down in the window so that | |
401 different parts of the text are visible. Scrolling forward means that text | |
402 moves up, and new text appears at the bottom. Scrolling backward moves | |
403 text down and new text appears at the top. | |
404 | |
405 Scrolling happens automatically if you move point past the bottom or top | |
406 of the window. You can also explicitly request scrolling with the commands | |
407 in this section. | |
408 | |
409 @table @kbd | |
410 @item C-l | |
411 Clear screen and redisplay, scrolling the selected window to center | |
412 point vertically within it (@code{recenter}). | |
413 @item C-v | |
414 Scroll forward (a windowful or a specified number of lines) (@code{scroll-up}). | |
415 @item @key{NEXT} | |
416 Likewise, scroll forward. | |
417 @item M-v | |
418 Scroll backward (@code{scroll-down}). | |
419 @item @key{PRIOR} | |
420 Likewise, scroll backward. | |
421 @item @var{arg} C-l | |
422 Scroll so point is on line @var{arg} (@code{recenter}). | |
423 @item C-M-l | |
424 Scroll heuristically to bring useful information onto the screen | |
425 (@code{reposition-window}). | |
426 @end table | |
427 | |
428 @kindex C-l | |
429 @findex recenter | |
430 The most basic scrolling command is @kbd{C-l} (@code{recenter}) with | |
431 no argument. It clears the entire screen and redisplays all windows. | |
432 In addition, it scrolls the selected window so that point is halfway | |
433 down from the top of the window. | |
434 | |
435 @kindex C-v | |
436 @kindex M-v | |
437 @kindex NEXT | |
438 @kindex PRIOR | |
439 @findex scroll-up | |
440 @findex scroll-down | |
441 The scrolling commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} let you move all the text | |
442 in the window up or down a few lines. @kbd{C-v} (@code{scroll-up}) with an | |
443 argument shows you that many more lines at the bottom of the window, moving | |
444 the text and point up together as @kbd{C-l} might. @kbd{C-v} with a | |
445 negative argument shows you more lines at the top of the window. | |
446 @kbd{M-v} (@code{scroll-down}) is like @kbd{C-v}, but moves in the | |
447 opposite direction. The function keys @key{NEXT} and @key{PRIOR} are | |
448 equivalent to @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v}. | |
449 | |
450 The names of scroll commands are based on the direction that the text | |
451 moves in the window. Thus, the command to scroll forward is called | |
452 @code{scroll-up} because it moves the text upward on the screen. | |
453 | |
454 @vindex next-screen-context-lines | |
455 To read the buffer a windowful at a time, use @kbd{C-v} with no argument. | |
456 It takes the last two lines at the bottom of the window and puts them at | |
457 the top, followed by nearly a whole windowful of lines not previously | |
458 visible. If point was in the text scrolled off the top, it moves to the | |
459 new top of the window. @kbd{M-v} with no argument moves backward with | |
460 overlap similarly. The number of lines of overlap across a @kbd{C-v} or | |
461 @kbd{M-v} is controlled by the variable @code{next-screen-context-lines}; by | |
462 default, it is 2. | |
463 | |
464 @vindex scroll-preserve-screen-position | |
465 Some users like the full-screen scroll commands to keep point at the | |
466 same screen line. To enable this behavior, set the variable | |
467 @code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} to a non-@code{nil} value. This | |
468 mode is convenient for browsing through a file by scrolling by | |
469 screenfuls; if you come back to the screen where you started, point goes | |
470 back to the line where it started. However, this mode is inconvenient | |
471 when you move to the next screen in order to move point to the text | |
472 there. | |
473 | |
474 Another way to do scrolling is with @kbd{C-l} with a numeric argument. | |
475 @kbd{C-l} does not clear the screen when given an argument; it only scrolls | |
476 the selected window. With a positive argument @var{n}, it repositions text | |
477 to put point @var{n} lines down from the top. An argument of zero puts | |
478 point on the very top line. Point does not move with respect to the text; | |
479 rather, the text and point move rigidly on the screen. @kbd{C-l} with a | |
480 negative argument puts point that many lines from the bottom of the window. | |
481 For example, @kbd{C-u - 1 C-l} puts point on the bottom line, and @kbd{C-u | |
482 - 5 C-l} puts it five lines from the bottom. Just @kbd{C-u} as argument, | |
483 as in @kbd{C-u C-l}, scrolls point to the center of the selected window. | |
484 | |
485 @kindex C-M-l | |
486 @findex reposition-window | |
487 The @kbd{C-M-l} command (@code{reposition-window}) scrolls the current | |
488 window heuristically in a way designed to get useful information onto | |
489 the screen. For example, in a Lisp file, this command tries to get the | |
490 entire current defun onto the screen if possible. | |
491 | |
492 @vindex scroll-conservatively | |
493 Scrolling happens automatically if point has moved out of the visible | |
494 portion of the text when it is time to display. Normally, automatic | |
495 scrolling centers point vertically within the window. However, if you | |
496 set @code{scroll-conservatively} to a small number @var{n}, then if you | |
497 move point just a little off the screen---less than @var{n} lines---then | |
498 Emacs scrolls the text just far enough to bring point back on screen. | |
499 By default, @code{scroll-conservatively} is 0. | |
500 | |
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506 @code{scroll-up-aggressively} and @code{scroll-down-aggressively}. |
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508 @code{nil}, or a fraction @var{f} between 0 and 1. A fraction |
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510 More precisely, when a window scrolls up because point is above the |
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515 @code{nil}, which is the default, scrolls to put point at the center. |
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518 Likewise, @code{scroll-down-aggressively} is used for scrolling |
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25829 | 523 @vindex scroll-margin |
524 The variable @code{scroll-margin} restricts how close point can come | |
525 to the top or bottom of a window. Its value is a number of screen | |
526 lines; if point comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the | |
527 window, Emacs recenters the window. By default, @code{scroll-margin} is | |
528 0. | |
529 | |
530 @node Horizontal Scrolling | |
531 @section Horizontal Scrolling | |
532 @cindex horizontal scrolling | |
533 | |
534 @dfn{Horizontal scrolling} means shifting all the lines sideways | |
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548 @table @kbd | |
549 @item C-x < | |
550 Scroll text in current window to the left (@code{scroll-left}). | |
551 @item C-x > | |
552 Scroll to the right (@code{scroll-right}). | |
553 @end table | |
554 | |
555 @kindex C-x < | |
556 @kindex C-x > | |
557 @findex scroll-left | |
558 @findex scroll-right | |
559 The command @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected | |
560 window to the left by @var{n} columns with argument @var{n}. This moves | |
561 part of the beginning of each line off the left edge of the window. | |
562 With no argument, it scrolls by almost the full width of the window (two | |
563 columns less, to be precise). | |
564 | |
565 @kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right. The | |
566 window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is displayed | |
567 normally (with each line starting at the window's left margin); | |
568 attempting to do so has no effect. This means that you don't have to | |
569 calculate the argument precisely for @w{@kbd{C-x >}}; any sufficiently large | |
570 argument will restore the normal display. | |
571 | |
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582 @section Follow Mode | |
583 @cindex Follow mode | |
584 @cindex mode, Follow | |
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589 @dfn{Follow mode} is a minor mode that makes two windows showing the | |
590 same buffer scroll as one tall ``virtual window.'' To use Follow mode, | |
591 go to a frame with just one window, split it into two side-by-side | |
592 windows using @kbd{C-x 3}, and then type @kbd{M-x follow-mode}. From | |
593 then on, you can edit the buffer in either of the two windows, or scroll | |
594 either one; the other window follows it. | |
595 | |
36245 | 596 In Follow mode, if you move point outside the portion visible in one |
597 window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects | |
598 the other window---again, treating the two as if they were parts of | |
599 one large window. | |
600 | |
25829 | 601 To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time. |
602 | |
603 @node Selective Display | |
604 @section Selective Display | |
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607 @kindex C-x $ | |
608 | |
609 Emacs has the ability to hide lines indented more than a certain number | |
610 of columns (you specify how many columns). You can use this to get an | |
611 overview of a part of a program. | |
612 | |
613 To hide lines, type @kbd{C-x $} (@code{set-selective-display}) with a | |
614 numeric argument @var{n}. Then lines with at least @var{n} columns of | |
615 indentation disappear from the screen. The only indication of their | |
616 presence is that three dots (@samp{@dots{}}) appear at the end of each | |
617 visible line that is followed by one or more hidden ones. | |
618 | |
619 The commands @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} move across the hidden lines as | |
620 if they were not there. | |
621 | |
622 The hidden lines are still present in the buffer, and most editing | |
623 commands see them as usual, so you may find point in the middle of the | |
624 hidden text. When this happens, the cursor appears at the end of the | |
625 previous line, after the three dots. If point is at the end of the | |
626 visible line, before the newline that ends it, the cursor appears before | |
627 the three dots. | |
628 | |
629 To make all lines visible again, type @kbd{C-x $} with no argument. | |
630 | |
631 @vindex selective-display-ellipses | |
632 If you set the variable @code{selective-display-ellipses} to | |
633 @code{nil}, the three dots do not appear at the end of a line that | |
634 precedes hidden lines. Then there is no visible indication of the | |
635 hidden lines. This variable becomes local automatically when set. | |
636 | |
637 @node Optional Mode Line | |
638 @section Optional Mode Line Features | |
639 | |
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643 The current line number of point appears in the mode line when Line | |
644 Number mode is enabled. Use the command @kbd{M-x line-number-mode} to | |
645 turn this mode on and off; normally it is on. The line number appears | |
646 before the buffer percentage @var{pos}, with the letter @samp{L} to | |
647 indicate what it is. @xref{Minor Modes}, for more information about | |
648 minor modes and about how to use this command. | |
649 | |
650 @vindex line-number-display-limit | |
651 If the buffer is very large (larger than the value of | |
652 @code{line-number-display-limit}), then the line number doesn't appear. | |
653 Emacs doesn't compute the line number when the buffer is large, because | |
29753 | 654 that would be too slow. Set it to @code{nil} to remove the limit. If |
655 you have narrowed the buffer (@pxref{Narrowing}), the displayed line | |
656 number is relative to the accessible portion of the buffer. | |
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658 @cindex Column Number mode | |
659 @cindex mode, Column Number | |
660 @findex column-number-mode | |
661 You can also display the current column number by turning on Column | |
662 Number mode. It displays the current column number preceded by the | |
663 letter @samp{C}. Type @kbd{M-x column-number-mode} to toggle this mode. | |
664 | |
665 @findex display-time | |
666 @cindex time (on mode line) | |
667 Emacs can optionally display the time and system load in all mode | |
30870 | 668 lines. To enable this feature, type @kbd{M-x display-time} or customize |
669 the option @code{display-time-mode}. The information added to the mode | |
670 line usually appears after the buffer name, before the mode names and | |
671 their parentheses. It looks like this: | |
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673 @example | |
674 @var{hh}:@var{mm}pm @var{l.ll} | |
675 @end example | |
676 | |
677 @noindent | |
678 @vindex display-time-24hr-format | |
679 Here @var{hh} and @var{mm} are the hour and minute, followed always by | |
680 @samp{am} or @samp{pm}. @var{l.ll} is the average number of running | |
681 processes in the whole system recently. (Some fields may be missing if | |
682 your operating system cannot support them.) If you prefer time display | |
683 in 24-hour format, set the variable @code{display-time-24hr-format} | |
684 to @code{t}. | |
685 | |
686 @cindex mail (on mode line) | |
28800 | 687 @vindex display-time-use-mail-icon |
688 @vindex display-time-mail-face | |
25829 | 689 The word @samp{Mail} appears after the load level if there is mail |
28800 | 690 for you that you have not read yet. On a graphical display you can use |
691 an icon instead of @samp{Mail} by customizing | |
692 @code{display-time-use-mail-icon}; this may save some space on the mode | |
693 line. You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail | |
694 indicator prominent. | |
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702 window, and cause the last line of the window be partially obscured. |
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721 @section How Text Is Displayed | |
722 @cindex characters (in text) | |
723 | |
724 ASCII printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs | |
725 buffers are displayed with their graphics. So are non-ASCII multibyte | |
726 printing characters (octal codes above 0400). | |
727 | |
728 Some ASCII control characters are displayed in special ways. The | |
729 newline character (octal code 012) is displayed by starting a new line. | |
730 The tab character (octal code 011) is displayed by moving to the next | |
731 tab stop column (normally every 8 columns). | |
732 | |
733 Other ASCII control characters are normally displayed as a caret | |
734 (@samp{^}) followed by the non-control version of the character; thus, | |
735 control-A is displayed as @samp{^A}. | |
736 | |
33744 | 737 Non-ASCII characters 0200 through 0237 (octal) are displayed with |
738 octal escape sequences; thus, character code 0230 (octal) is displayed | |
739 as @samp{\230}. The display of character codes 0240 through 0377 | |
740 (octal) may be either as escape sequences or as graphics. They do not | |
741 normally occur in multibyte buffers but if they do, they are displayed | |
742 as Latin-1 graphics. In unibyte mode, if you enable European display | |
743 they are displayed using their graphics (assuming your terminal supports | |
744 them), otherwise as escape sequences. @xref{Single-Byte Character | |
745 Support}. | |
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748 @section Customization of Display |
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750 This section contains information for customization only. Beginning | |
751 users should skip it. | |
752 | |
753 @vindex mode-line-inverse-video | |
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760 usual foreground color. @xref{Faces}. |
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762 @vindex inverse-video | |
763 If the variable @code{inverse-video} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
764 to invert all the lines of the display from what they normally are. | |
765 | |
766 @vindex visible-bell | |
767 If the variable @code{visible-bell} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts | |
768 to make the whole screen blink when it would normally make an audible bell | |
769 sound. This variable has no effect if your terminal does not have a way | |
770 to make the screen blink.@refill | |
771 | |
772 @vindex no-redraw-on-reenter | |
773 When you reenter Emacs after suspending, Emacs normally clears the | |
774 screen and redraws the entire display. On some terminals with more than | |
775 one page of memory, it is possible to arrange the termcap entry so that | |
776 the @samp{ti} and @samp{te} strings (output to the terminal when Emacs | |
777 is entered and exited, respectively) switch between pages of memory so | |
778 as to use one page for Emacs and another page for other output. Then | |
779 you might want to set the variable @code{no-redraw-on-reenter} | |
780 non-@code{nil}; this tells Emacs to assume, when resumed, that the | |
781 screen page it is using still contains what Emacs last wrote there. | |
782 | |
783 @vindex echo-keystrokes | |
784 The variable @code{echo-keystrokes} controls the echoing of multi-character | |
785 keys; its value is the number of seconds of pause required to cause echoing | |
786 to start, or zero meaning don't echo at all. @xref{Echo Area}. | |
787 | |
788 @vindex ctl-arrow | |
789 If the variable @code{ctl-arrow} is @code{nil}, control characters in | |
790 the buffer are displayed with octal escape sequences, except for newline | |
791 and tab. Altering the value of @code{ctl-arrow} makes it local to the | |
792 current buffer; until that time, the default value is in effect. The | |
793 default is initially @code{t}. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
794 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
795 | |
796 @vindex tab-width | |
797 Normally, a tab character in the buffer is displayed as whitespace which | |
798 extends to the next display tab stop position, and display tab stops come | |
799 at intervals equal to eight spaces. The number of spaces per tab is | |
800 controlled by the variable @code{tab-width}, which is made local by | |
801 changing it, just like @code{ctl-arrow}. Note that how the tab character | |
802 in the buffer is displayed has nothing to do with the definition of | |
803 @key{TAB} as a command. The variable @code{tab-width} must have an | |
804 integer value between 1 and 1000, inclusive. | |
805 | |
806 @c @vindex truncate-lines @c No index entry here, because we have one | |
807 @c in the continuation section. | |
808 If the variable @code{truncate-lines} is non-@code{nil}, then each | |
809 line of text gets just one screen line for display; if the text line is | |
810 too long, display shows only the part that fits. If | |
811 @code{truncate-lines} is @code{nil}, then long text lines display as | |
812 more than one screen line, enough to show the whole text of the line. | |
813 @xref{Continuation Lines}. Altering the value of @code{truncate-lines} | |
814 makes it local to the current buffer; until that time, the default value | |
815 is in effect. The default is initially @code{nil}. | |
816 | |
817 @c @vindex truncate-partial-width-windows @c Idx entry is in Split Windows. | |
818 If the variable @code{truncate-partial-width-windows} is | |
819 non-@code{nil}, it forces truncation rather than continuation in any | |
820 window less than the full width of the screen or frame, regardless of | |
821 the value of @code{truncate-lines}. For information about side-by-side | |
822 windows, see @ref{Split Window}. See also @ref{Display,, Display, | |
823 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
824 | |
825 @vindex baud-rate | |
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827 terminal, as far as Emacs knows. Setting this variable does not |
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829 for calculations. On terminals, it affects padding, and decisions |
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838 You can customize the way any particular character code is displayed | |
839 by means of a display table. @xref{Display Tables,, Display Tables, | |
840 elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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876 @vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows |
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Remove redundant index entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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877 Normally, the cursor in non-selected windows is shown as a hollow box. |
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Remove redundant index entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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878 To turn off cursor display in non-selected windows, customize the option |
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(Cursor Display): show-cursor-in-non-selected-windows was renamed.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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879 @code{cursor-in-non-selected-windows} to assign it a @code{nil} value. |