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25829 | 1 @c This is part of the Emacs manual. |
28126 | 2 @c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 2000 |
3 @c Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
25829 | 4 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
5 @node Frames, International, Windows, Top | |
6 @chapter Frames and X Windows | |
7 @cindex frames | |
8 | |
9 When using the X Window System, you can create multiple windows at the | |
10 X level in a single Emacs session. Each X window that belongs to Emacs | |
11 displays a @dfn{frame} which can contain one or several Emacs windows. | |
12 A frame initially contains a single general-purpose Emacs window which | |
13 you can subdivide vertically or horizontally into smaller windows. A | |
14 frame normally contains its own echo area and minibuffer, but you can | |
15 make frames that don't have these---they use the echo area and | |
16 minibuffer of another frame. | |
17 | |
18 Editing you do in one frame also affects the other frames. For | |
19 instance, if you put text in the kill ring in one frame, you can yank it | |
20 in another frame. If you exit Emacs through @kbd{C-x C-c} in one frame, | |
21 it terminates all the frames. To delete just one frame, use @kbd{C-x 5 | |
22 0}. | |
23 | |
24 To avoid confusion, we reserve the word ``window'' for the | |
25 subdivisions that Emacs implements, and never use it to refer to a | |
26 frame. | |
27 | |
28 Emacs compiled for MS-DOS emulates some aspects of the window system | |
29 so that you can use many of the features described in this chapter. | |
30 @xref{MS-DOS Input}, for more information. | |
31 | |
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32 @cindex MS Windows |
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33 Emacs compiled for MS Windows mostly supports the same features as |
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34 under X. |
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36 Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode) |
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37 will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one |
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38 face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening, such as the |
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39 Linux console. Emacs determines automatically whether the terminal has |
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25829 | 42 @menu |
43 * Mouse Commands:: Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse. | |
44 * Secondary Selection:: Cutting without altering point and mark. | |
45 * Mouse References:: Using the mouse to select an item from a list. | |
46 * Menu Mouse Clicks:: Mouse clicks that bring up menus. | |
47 * Mode Line Mouse:: Mouse clicks on the mode line. | |
48 * Speedbar:: How to make and use a speedbar frame. | |
49 * Creating Frames:: Creating additional Emacs frames with various contents. | |
50 * Multiple Displays:: How one Emacs job can talk to several displays. | |
51 * Special Buffer Frames:: You can make certain buffers have their own frames. | |
52 * Frame Parameters:: Changing the colors and other modes of frames. | |
53 * Scroll Bars:: How to enable and disable scroll bars; how to use them. | |
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54 * Wheeled Mice:: Using mouse wheels for scrolling. |
25829 | 55 * Menu Bars:: Enabling and disabling the menu bar. |
31609 | 56 * Tool Bars:: Enabling and disabling the tool bar. |
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57 * Dialog Boxes:: Controlling use of dialog boxes. |
25829 | 58 * Faces:: How to change the display style using faces. |
59 * Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces. | |
60 * Support Modes:: Font Lock support modes make Font Lock faster. | |
61 * Highlight Changes:: Using colors to show where you changed the buffer. | |
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62 * Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight. |
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63 * Trailing Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace. |
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64 * Tooltips:: Showing `tooltips', AKA `ballon help' for active text. |
28124 | 65 * Mouse Avoidance:: Moving the mouse pointer out of the way. |
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66 * Misc X:: Iconifying and deleting frames. |
25829 | 67 * Non-Window Terminals:: Multiple frames on terminals that show only one. |
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68 * XTerm Mouse:: Using the mouse in an XTerm terminal emulator. |
25829 | 69 @end menu |
70 | |
71 @node Mouse Commands | |
72 @section Mouse Commands for Editing | |
73 @cindex mouse buttons (what they do) | |
74 | |
75 The mouse commands for selecting and copying a region are mostly | |
76 compatible with the @code{xterm} program. You can use the same mouse | |
77 commands for copying between Emacs and other X client programs. | |
78 | |
79 @kindex DELETE | |
80 If you select a region with any of these mouse commands, and then | |
81 immediately afterward type the @key{DELETE} function key, it deletes the | |
82 region that you selected. The @key{BACKSPACE} function key and the | |
83 ASCII character @key{DEL} do not do this; if you type any other key | |
84 in between the mouse command and @key{DELETE}, it does not do this. | |
85 | |
86 @findex mouse-set-region | |
87 @findex mouse-set-point | |
88 @findex mouse-yank-at-click | |
89 @findex mouse-save-then-click | |
90 @kindex Mouse-1 | |
91 @kindex Mouse-2 | |
92 @kindex Mouse-3 | |
93 @table @kbd | |
94 @item Mouse-1 | |
95 Move point to where you click (@code{mouse-set-point}). | |
96 This is normally the left button. | |
97 | |
98 @item Drag-Mouse-1 | |
99 Set the region to the text you select by dragging, and copy it to the | |
100 kill ring (@code{mouse-set-region}). You can specify both ends of the | |
101 region with this single command. | |
102 | |
103 @vindex mouse-scroll-min-lines | |
104 If you move the mouse off the top or bottom of the window while | |
105 dragging, the window scrolls at a steady rate until you move the mouse | |
106 back into the window. This way, you can select regions that don't fit | |
107 entirely on the screen. The number of lines scrolled per step depends | |
108 on how far away from the window edge the mouse has gone; the variable | |
109 @code{mouse-scroll-min-lines} specifies a minimum step size. | |
110 | |
111 @item Mouse-2 | |
112 Yank the last killed text, where you click (@code{mouse-yank-at-click}). | |
113 This is normally the middle button. | |
114 | |
115 @item Mouse-3 | |
116 This command, @code{mouse-save-then-kill}, has several functions | |
117 depending on where you click and the status of the region. | |
118 | |
119 The most basic case is when you click @kbd{Mouse-1} in one place and | |
120 then @kbd{Mouse-3} in another. This selects the text between those two | |
121 positions as the region. It also copies the new region to the kill | |
122 ring, so that you can copy it to someplace else. | |
123 | |
124 If you click @kbd{Mouse-1} in the text, scroll with the scroll bar, and | |
125 then click @kbd{Mouse-3}, it remembers where point was before scrolling | |
126 (where you put it with @kbd{Mouse-1}), and uses that position as the | |
127 other end of the region. This is so that you can select a region that | |
128 doesn't fit entirely on the screen. | |
129 | |
130 More generally, if you do not have a highlighted region, @kbd{Mouse-3} | |
131 selects the text between point and the click position as the region. It | |
132 does this by setting the mark where point was, and moving point to where | |
133 you click. | |
134 | |
135 If you have a highlighted region, or if the region was set just before | |
136 by dragging button 1, @kbd{Mouse-3} adjusts the nearer end of the region | |
137 by moving it to where you click. The adjusted region's text also | |
138 replaces the old region's text in the kill ring. | |
139 | |
140 If you originally specified the region using a double or triple | |
141 @kbd{Mouse-1}, so that the region is defined to consist of entire words | |
142 or lines, then adjusting the region with @kbd{Mouse-3} also proceeds by | |
143 entire words or lines. | |
144 | |
145 If you use @kbd{Mouse-3} a second time consecutively, at the same place, | |
146 that kills the region already selected. | |
147 | |
148 @item Double-Mouse-1 | |
149 This key sets the region around the word which you click on. If you | |
150 click on a character with ``symbol'' syntax (such as underscore, in C | |
151 mode), it sets the region around the symbol surrounding that character. | |
152 | |
153 If you click on a character with open-parenthesis or close-parenthesis | |
154 syntax, it sets the region around the parenthetical grouping (sexp) | |
155 which that character starts or ends. If you click on a character with | |
156 string-delimiter syntax (such as a singlequote or doublequote in C), it | |
157 sets the region around the string constant (using heuristics to figure | |
158 out whether that character is the beginning or the end of it). | |
159 | |
160 @item Double-Drag-Mouse-1 | |
161 This key selects a region made up of the words you drag across. | |
162 | |
163 @item Triple-Mouse-1 | |
164 This key sets the region around the line you click on. | |
165 | |
166 @item Triple-Drag-Mouse-1 | |
167 This key selects a region made up of the lines you drag across. | |
168 @end table | |
169 | |
170 The simplest way to kill text with the mouse is to press @kbd{Mouse-1} | |
171 at one end, then press @kbd{Mouse-3} twice at the other end. | |
172 @xref{Killing}. To copy the text into the kill ring without deleting it | |
173 from the buffer, press @kbd{Mouse-3} just once---or just drag across the | |
174 text with @kbd{Mouse-1}. Then you can copy it elsewhere by yanking it. | |
175 | |
176 @vindex mouse-yank-at-point | |
177 To yank the killed or copied text somewhere else, move the mouse there | |
178 and press @kbd{Mouse-2}. @xref{Yanking}. However, if | |
179 @code{mouse-yank-at-point} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{Mouse-2} yanks at | |
180 point. Then it does not matter where you click, or even which of the | |
181 frame's windows you click on. The default value is @code{nil}. This | |
182 variable also affects yanking the secondary selection. | |
183 | |
184 @cindex cutting and X | |
185 @cindex pasting and X | |
186 @cindex X cutting and pasting | |
187 To copy text to another X window, kill it or save it in the kill ring. | |
188 Under X, this also sets the @dfn{primary selection}. Then use the | |
189 ``paste'' or ``yank'' command of the program operating the other window | |
190 to insert the text from the selection. | |
191 | |
192 To copy text from another X window, use the ``cut'' or ``copy'' command | |
193 of the program operating the other window, to select the text you want. | |
194 Then yank it in Emacs with @kbd{C-y} or @kbd{Mouse-2}. | |
195 | |
196 These cutting and pasting commands also work on MS-Windows. | |
197 | |
198 @cindex primary selection | |
199 @cindex cut buffer | |
200 @cindex selection, primary | |
201 @vindex x-cut-buffer-max | |
202 When Emacs puts text into the kill ring, or rotates text to the front | |
203 of the kill ring, it sets the @dfn{primary selection} in the X server. | |
204 This is how other X clients can access the text. Emacs also stores the | |
205 text in the cut buffer, but only if the text is short enough | |
206 (@code{x-cut-buffer-max} specifies the maximum number of characters); | |
207 putting long strings in the cut buffer can be slow. | |
208 | |
209 The commands to yank the first entry in the kill ring actually check | |
210 first for a primary selection in another program; after that, they check | |
211 for text in the cut buffer. If neither of those sources provides text | |
212 to yank, the kill ring contents are used. | |
213 | |
214 @node Secondary Selection | |
215 @section Secondary Selection | |
216 @cindex secondary selection | |
217 | |
218 The @dfn{secondary selection} is another way of selecting text using | |
219 X. It does not use point or the mark, so you can use it to kill text | |
220 without setting point or the mark. | |
221 | |
222 @table @kbd | |
223 @findex mouse-set-secondary | |
224 @kindex M-Drag-Mouse-1 | |
225 @item M-Drag-Mouse-1 | |
226 Set the secondary selection, with one end at the place where you press | |
227 down the button, and the other end at the place where you release it | |
228 (@code{mouse-set-secondary}). The highlighting appears and changes as | |
229 you drag. | |
230 | |
231 If you move the mouse off the top or bottom of the window while | |
232 dragging, the window scrolls at a steady rate until you move the mouse | |
233 back into the window. This way, you can mark regions that don't fit | |
234 entirely on the screen. | |
235 | |
236 @findex mouse-start-secondary | |
237 @kindex M-Mouse-1 | |
238 @item M-Mouse-1 | |
239 Set one endpoint for the @dfn{secondary selection} | |
240 (@code{mouse-start-secondary}). | |
241 | |
242 @findex mouse-secondary-save-then-kill | |
243 @kindex M-Mouse-3 | |
244 @item M-Mouse-3 | |
245 Make a secondary selection, using the place specified with @kbd{M-Mouse-1} | |
246 as the other end (@code{mouse-secondary-save-then-kill}). A second click | |
247 at the same place kills the secondary selection just made. | |
248 | |
249 @findex mouse-yank-secondary | |
250 @kindex M-Mouse-2 | |
251 @item M-Mouse-2 | |
252 Insert the secondary selection where you click | |
253 (@code{mouse-yank-secondary}). This places point at the end of the | |
254 yanked text. | |
255 @end table | |
256 | |
257 Double or triple clicking of @kbd{M-Mouse-1} operates on words and | |
258 lines, much like @kbd{Mouse-1}. | |
259 | |
260 If @code{mouse-yank-at-point} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{M-Mouse-2} | |
261 yanks at point. Then it does not matter precisely where you click; all | |
262 that matters is which window you click on. @xref{Mouse Commands}. | |
263 | |
264 @node Mouse References | |
265 @section Following References with the Mouse | |
266 @kindex Mouse-2 @r{(selection)} | |
267 | |
268 Some Emacs buffers display lists of various sorts. These include | |
269 lists of files, of buffers, of possible completions, of matches for | |
270 a pattern, and so on. | |
271 | |
272 Since yanking text into these buffers is not very useful, most of them | |
273 define @kbd{Mouse-2} specially, as a command to use or view the item you | |
274 click on. | |
275 | |
276 For example, if you click @kbd{Mouse-2} on a file name in a Dired | |
277 buffer, you visit that file. If you click @kbd{Mouse-2} on an error | |
278 message in the @samp{*Compilation*} buffer, you go to the source code | |
279 for that error message. If you click @kbd{Mouse-2} on a completion in | |
280 the @samp{*Completions*} buffer, you choose that completion. | |
281 | |
282 You can usually tell when @kbd{Mouse-2} has this special sort of | |
283 meaning because the sensitive text highlights when you move the mouse | |
284 over it. | |
285 | |
286 @node Menu Mouse Clicks | |
287 @section Mouse Clicks for Menus | |
288 | |
289 Mouse clicks modified with the @key{CTRL} and @key{SHIFT} keys | |
290 bring up menus. | |
291 | |
292 @table @kbd | |
293 @item C-Mouse-1 | |
30872 | 294 @kindex C-Mouse-1 |
295 @findex msb-mode | |
296 @cindex MSB minor mode | |
297 @cindex mode, MSB | |
25829 | 298 This menu is for selecting a buffer. |
299 | |
30872 | 300 The MSB (`mouse select buffer') global minor mode alters this menu to a |
301 form some people prefer and which is customizable. See the Custom group | |
302 @code{msb}. | |
303 | |
25829 | 304 @item C-Mouse-2 |
30872 | 305 @kindex C-Mouse-2 |
25829 | 306 This menu is for specifying faces and other text properties |
307 for editing formatted text. @xref{Formatted Text}. | |
308 | |
309 @item C-Mouse-3 | |
30872 | 310 @kindex C-Mouse-3 |
311 This menu is mode-specific. For most modes if Menu-bar mode is on, this | |
312 menu has the same items as all the mode-specific menu-bar menus put | |
313 together. Some modes may specify a different menu for this | |
314 button.@footnote{Some systems use @kbd{Mouse-3} for a mode-specific | |
315 menu. We took a survey of users, and found they preferred to keep | |
316 @kbd{Mouse-3} for selecting and killing regions. Hence the decision to | |
317 use @kbd{C-Mouse-3} for this menu.} If Menu-bar mode is off, this menu | |
318 contains all the items which would be present in the menu bar---not just | |
319 the mode-specific ones---so that you can access them without having to | |
320 display the menu bar. | |
25829 | 321 |
322 @item S-mouse-1 | |
323 This menu is for specifying the frame's principal font. | |
324 @end table | |
325 | |
326 @node Mode Line Mouse | |
327 @section Mode Line Mouse Commands | |
30872 | 328 @cindex mode line, mouse |
329 @cindex mouse on mode line | |
25829 | 330 |
331 You can use mouse clicks on window mode lines to select and manipulate | |
332 windows. | |
333 | |
334 @table @kbd | |
335 @item Mouse-1 | |
30872 | 336 @kindex mode-line mouse-1 |
25829 | 337 @kbd{Mouse-1} on a mode line selects the window above. By dragging |
338 @kbd{Mouse-1} on the mode line, you can move it, thus changing the | |
339 height of the windows above and below. | |
340 | |
341 @item Mouse-2 | |
30872 | 342 @kindex mode-line mouse-2 |
25829 | 343 @kbd{Mouse-2} on a mode line expands that window to fill its frame. |
344 | |
345 @item Mouse-3 | |
30872 | 346 @kindex mode-line mouse-3 |
25829 | 347 @kbd{Mouse-3} on a mode line deletes the window above. |
348 | |
349 @item C-Mouse-2 | |
30872 | 350 @kindex mode-line C-mouse-2 |
25829 | 351 @kbd{C-Mouse-2} on a mode line splits the window above |
352 horizontally, above the place in the mode line where you click. | |
353 @end table | |
354 | |
30872 | 355 @kindex vertical-scroll-bar mouse-1 |
25829 | 356 @kbd{C-Mouse-2} on a scroll bar splits the corresponding window |
357 vertically. @xref{Split Window}. | |
358 | |
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361 displaying the buffer name and the major mode name, have their own mouse |
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362 bindings. Help on these bindings is echoed when the mouse is positioned |
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25829 | 365 @node Creating Frames |
366 @section Creating Frames | |
367 @cindex creating frames | |
368 | |
369 @kindex C-x 5 | |
370 The prefix key @kbd{C-x 5} is analogous to @kbd{C-x 4}, with parallel | |
371 subcommands. The difference is that @kbd{C-x 5} commands create a new | |
372 frame rather than just a new window in the selected frame (@pxref{Pop | |
373 Up Window}). If an existing visible or iconified frame already displays | |
374 the requested material, these commands use the existing frame, after | |
375 raising or deiconifying as necessary. | |
376 | |
377 The various @kbd{C-x 5} commands differ in how they find or create the | |
378 buffer to select: | |
379 | |
380 @table @kbd | |
30984 | 381 @item C-x 5 1 |
382 @kindex C-x 5 1 | |
383 @findex delete-other-frames | |
384 Delete all frames except the selected one (@code{delete-other-frames}). | |
25829 | 385 @item C-x 5 2 |
386 @kindex C-x 5 2 | |
387 @findex make-frame-command | |
388 Create a new frame (@code{make-frame-command}). | |
389 @item C-x 5 b @var{bufname} @key{RET} | |
390 Select buffer @var{bufname} in another frame. This runs | |
391 @code{switch-to-buffer-other-frame}. | |
392 @item C-x 5 f @var{filename} @key{RET} | |
393 Visit file @var{filename} and select its buffer in another frame. This | |
394 runs @code{find-file-other-frame}. @xref{Visiting}. | |
395 @item C-x 5 d @var{directory} @key{RET} | |
396 Select a Dired buffer for directory @var{directory} in another frame. | |
397 This runs @code{dired-other-frame}. @xref{Dired}. | |
398 @item C-x 5 m | |
399 Start composing a mail message in another frame. This runs | |
400 @code{mail-other-frame}. It is the other-frame variant of @kbd{C-x m}. | |
401 @xref{Sending Mail}. | |
402 @item C-x 5 . | |
403 Find a tag in the current tag table in another frame. This runs | |
404 @code{find-tag-other-frame}, the multiple-frame variant of @kbd{M-.}. | |
405 @xref{Tags}. | |
406 @item C-x 5 r @var{filename} @key{RET} | |
407 @kindex C-x 5 r | |
408 @findex find-file-read-only-other-frame | |
409 Visit file @var{filename} read-only, and select its buffer in another | |
410 frame. This runs @code{find-file-read-only-other-frame}. | |
411 @xref{Visiting}. | |
412 @end table | |
413 | |
414 @cindex default-frame-alist | |
415 @cindex initial-frame-alist | |
416 You can control the appearance of new frames you create by setting the | |
417 frame parameters in @code{default-frame-alist}. You can use the | |
418 variable @code{initial-frame-alist} to specify parameters that affect | |
419 only the initial frame. @xref{Initial Parameters,,, elisp, The Emacs | |
420 Lisp Reference Manual}, for more information. | |
421 | |
422 @cindex font (default) | |
423 The easiest way to specify the principal font for all your Emacs | |
424 frames is with an X resource (@pxref{Font X}), but you can also do it by | |
425 modifying @code{default-frame-alist} to specify the @code{font} | |
426 parameter, as shown here: | |
427 | |
428 @example | |
429 (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "10x20")) | |
430 @end example | |
431 | |
432 @node Speedbar | |
433 @section Making and Using a Speedbar Frame | |
434 @cindex speedbar | |
435 | |
436 An Emacs frame can have a @dfn{speedbar}, which is a vertical window | |
437 that serves as a scrollable menu of files you could visit and tags | |
438 within those files. To create a speedbar, type @kbd{M-x speedbar}; this | |
439 creates a speedbar window for the selected frame. From then on, you can | |
440 click on a file name in the speedbar to visit that file in the | |
441 corresponding Emacs frame, or click on a tag name to jump to that tag in | |
442 the Emacs frame. | |
443 | |
444 Initially the speedbar lists the immediate contents of the current | |
445 directory, one file per line. Each line also has a box, @samp{[+]} or | |
446 @samp{<+>}, that you can click on with @kbd{Mouse-2} to ``open up'' the | |
447 contents of that item. If the line names a directory, opening it adds | |
448 the contents of that directory to the speedbar display, underneath the | |
449 directory's own line. If the line lists an ordinary file, opening it up | |
450 adds a list of the tags in that file to the speedbar display. When a | |
451 file is opened up, the @samp{[+]} changes to @samp{[-]}; you can click | |
452 on that box to ``close up'' that file (hide its contents). | |
453 | |
454 Some major modes, including Rmail mode, Info, and GUD, have | |
455 specialized ways of putting useful items into the speedbar for you to | |
456 select. For example, in Rmail mode, the speedbar shows a list of Rmail | |
457 files, and lets you move the current message to another Rmail file by | |
458 clicking on its @samp{<M>} box. | |
459 | |
460 A speedbar belongs to one Emacs frame, and always operates on that | |
461 frame. If you use multiple frames, you can make a speedbar for some or | |
462 all of the frames; type @kbd{M-x speedbar} in any given frame to make a | |
463 speedbar for it. | |
464 | |
465 @node Multiple Displays | |
466 @section Multiple Displays | |
467 @cindex multiple displays | |
468 | |
469 A single Emacs can talk to more than one X Windows display. | |
470 Initially, Emacs uses just one display---the one specified with the | |
29107 | 471 @env{DISPLAY} environment variable or with the @samp{--display} option |
25829 | 472 (@pxref{Initial Options}). To connect to another display, use the |
473 command @code{make-frame-on-display}: | |
474 | |
475 @findex make-frame-on-display | |
476 @table @kbd | |
477 @item M-x make-frame-on-display @key{RET} @var{display} @key{RET} | |
478 Create a new frame on display @var{display}. | |
479 @end table | |
480 | |
481 A single X server can handle more than one screen. When you open | |
482 frames on two screens belonging to one server, Emacs knows they share a | |
483 single keyboard, and it treats all the commands arriving from these | |
484 screens as a single stream of input. | |
485 | |
486 When you open frames on different X servers, Emacs makes a separate | |
487 input stream for each server. This way, two users can type | |
488 simultaneously on the two displays, and Emacs will not garble their | |
489 input. Each server also has its own selected frame. The commands you | |
490 enter with a particular X server apply to that server's selected frame. | |
491 | |
492 Despite these features, people using the same Emacs job from different | |
493 displays can still interfere with each other if they are not careful. | |
494 For example, if any one types @kbd{C-x C-c}, that exits the Emacs job | |
495 for all of them! | |
496 | |
497 @node Special Buffer Frames | |
498 @section Special Buffer Frames | |
499 | |
500 @vindex special-display-buffer-names | |
501 You can make certain chosen buffers, for which Emacs normally creates | |
502 a second window when you have just one window, appear in special frames | |
503 of their own. To do this, set the variable | |
504 @code{special-display-buffer-names} to a list of buffer names; any | |
505 buffer whose name is in that list automatically gets a special frame, | |
506 when an Emacs command wants to display it ``in another window.'' | |
507 | |
508 For example, if you set the variable this way, | |
509 | |
510 @example | |
511 (setq special-display-buffer-names | |
512 '("*Completions*" "*grep*" "*tex-shell*")) | |
513 @end example | |
514 | |
515 @noindent | |
516 then completion lists, @code{grep} output and the @TeX{} mode shell | |
517 buffer get individual frames of their own. These frames, and the | |
518 windows in them, are never automatically split or reused for any other | |
519 buffers. They continue to show the buffers they were created for, | |
520 unless you alter them by hand. Killing the special buffer deletes its | |
521 frame automatically. | |
522 | |
523 @vindex special-display-regexps | |
524 More generally, you can set @code{special-display-regexps} to a list | |
525 of regular expressions; then a buffer gets its own frame if its name | |
526 matches any of those regular expressions. (Once again, this applies only | |
527 to buffers that normally get displayed for you in a separate window.) | |
528 | |
529 @vindex special-display-frame-alist | |
530 The variable @code{special-display-frame-alist} specifies the frame | |
531 parameters for these frames. It has a default value, so you don't need | |
532 to set it. | |
533 | |
534 For those who know Lisp, an element of | |
535 @code{special-display-buffer-names} or @code{special-display-regexps} | |
536 can also be a list. Then the first element is the buffer name or | |
537 regular expression; the rest of the list specifies how to create the | |
538 frame. It can be an association list specifying frame parameter values; | |
539 these values take precedence over parameter values specified in | |
540 @code{special-display-frame-alist}. Alternatively, it can have this | |
541 form: | |
542 | |
543 @example | |
544 (@var{function} @var{args}...) | |
545 @end example | |
546 | |
547 @noindent | |
548 where @var{function} is a symbol. Then the frame is constructed by | |
549 calling @var{function}; its first argument is the buffer, and its | |
550 remaining arguments are @var{args}. | |
551 | |
552 An analogous feature lets you specify buffers which should be | |
553 displayed in the selected window. @xref{Force Same Window}. The | |
554 same-window feature takes precedence over the special-frame feature; | |
555 therefore, if you add a buffer name to | |
556 @code{special-display-buffer-names} and it has no effect, check to see | |
557 whether that feature is also in use for the same buffer name. | |
558 | |
559 @node Frame Parameters | |
560 @section Setting Frame Parameters | |
561 @cindex colors | |
562 @cindex Auto-Raise mode | |
563 @cindex Auto-Lower mode | |
564 | |
565 This section describes commands for altering the display style and | |
566 window management behavior of the selected frame. | |
567 | |
568 @findex set-foreground-color | |
569 @findex set-background-color | |
570 @findex set-cursor-color | |
571 @findex set-mouse-color | |
572 @findex set-border-color | |
573 @findex auto-raise-mode | |
574 @findex auto-lower-mode | |
575 @table @kbd | |
576 @item M-x set-foreground-color @key{RET} @var{color} @key{RET} | |
577 Specify color @var{color} for the foreground of the selected frame. | |
578 (This also changes the foreground color of the default face.) | |
579 | |
580 @item M-x set-background-color @key{RET} @var{color} @key{RET} | |
581 Specify color @var{color} for the background of the selected frame. | |
582 (This also changes the background color of the default face.) | |
583 | |
584 @item M-x set-cursor-color @key{RET} @var{color} @key{RET} | |
585 Specify color @var{color} for the cursor of the selected frame. | |
586 | |
587 @item M-x set-mouse-color @key{RET} @var{color} @key{RET} | |
588 Specify color @var{color} for the mouse cursor when it is over the | |
589 selected frame. | |
590 | |
591 @item M-x set-border-color @key{RET} @var{color} @key{RET} | |
592 Specify color @var{color} for the border of the selected frame. | |
593 | |
594 @item M-x list-colors-display | |
595 Display the defined color names and show what the colors look like. | |
596 This command is somewhat slow. | |
597 | |
598 @item M-x auto-raise-mode | |
599 Toggle whether or not the selected frame should auto-raise. Auto-raise | |
600 means that every time you move the mouse onto the frame, it raises the | |
601 frame. | |
602 | |
603 Note that this auto-raise feature is implemented by Emacs itself. Some | |
604 window managers also implement auto-raise. If you enable auto-raise for | |
605 Emacs frames in your X window manager, it should work, but it is beyond | |
606 Emacs's control and therefore @code{auto-raise-mode} has no effect on | |
607 it. | |
608 | |
609 @item M-x auto-lower-mode | |
610 Toggle whether or not the selected frame should auto-lower. | |
611 Auto-lower means that every time you move the mouse off the frame, | |
612 the frame moves to the bottom of the stack of X windows. | |
613 | |
614 The command @code{auto-lower-mode} has no effect on auto-lower | |
615 implemented by the X window manager. To control that, you must use | |
616 the appropriate window manager features. | |
617 | |
618 @findex set-frame-font | |
619 @item M-x set-frame-font @key{RET} @var{font} @key{RET} | |
620 @cindex font (principal) | |
621 Specify font @var{font} as the principal font for the selected frame. | |
622 The principal font controls several face attributes of the | |
623 @code{default} face (@pxref{Faces}). For example, if the principal font | |
624 has a height of 12 pt, all text will be drawn in 12 pt fonts, unless you | |
625 use another face that specifies a different height. @xref{Font X}, for | |
626 ways to list the available fonts on your system. | |
627 | |
628 @kindex S-Mouse-1 | |
629 You can also set a frame's principal font through a pop-up menu. | |
630 Press @kbd{S-Mouse-1} to activate this menu. | |
631 @end table | |
632 | |
633 In Emacs versions that use an X toolkit, the color-setting and | |
634 font-setting functions don't affect menus and the menu bar, since they | |
635 are displayed by their own widget classes. To change the appearance of | |
636 the menus and menu bar, you must use X resources (@pxref{Resources X}). | |
637 @xref{Colors X}, regarding colors. @xref{Font X}, regarding choice of | |
638 font. | |
639 | |
640 For information on frame parameters and customization, see @ref{Frame | |
641 Parameters,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. | |
642 | |
643 @node Scroll Bars | |
644 @section Scroll Bars | |
645 @cindex Scroll Bar mode | |
646 @cindex mode, Scroll Bar | |
647 | |
648 When using X, Emacs normally makes a @dfn{scroll bar} at the left of | |
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656 You can use @kbd{Mouse-2} (normally, the middle button) in the scroll | |
657 bar to move or drag the inner box up and down. If you move it to the | |
658 top of the scroll bar, you see the top of the buffer. If you move it to | |
659 the bottom of the scroll bar, you see the bottom of the buffer. | |
660 | |
661 The left and right buttons in the scroll bar scroll by controlled | |
662 increments. @kbd{Mouse-1} (normally, the left button) moves the line at | |
663 the level where you click up to the top of the window. @kbd{Mouse-3} | |
664 (normally, the right button) moves the line at the top of the window | |
665 down to the level where you click. By clicking repeatedly in the same | |
666 place, you can scroll by the same distance over and over. | |
667 | |
668 Aside from scrolling, you can also click @kbd{C-Mouse-2} in the scroll | |
669 bar to split a window vertically. The split occurs on the line where | |
670 you click. | |
671 | |
672 @findex scroll-bar-mode | |
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25829 | 674 You can enable or disable Scroll Bar mode with the command @kbd{M-x |
675 scroll-bar-mode}. With no argument, it toggles the use of scroll bars. | |
676 With an argument, it turns use of scroll bars on if and only if the | |
677 argument is positive. This command applies to all frames, including | |
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684 @findex toggle-scroll-bar | |
685 To enable or disable scroll bars for just the selected frame, use the | |
686 @kbd{M-x toggle-scroll-bar} command. | |
687 | |
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689 @section Scrolling With `Wheeled' Mice |
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30872 | 698 depends on the system generating appropriate events for Emacs.) |
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701 @vindex mwheel-scroll-amount |
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706 @section Menu Bars | |
707 @cindex Menu Bar mode | |
708 @cindex mode, Menu Bar | |
709 | |
710 You can turn display of menu bars on or off with @kbd{M-x | |
31609 | 711 menu-bar-mode} or by customizing the option @code{menu-bar-mode}. |
712 With no argument, this command toggles Menu Bar mode, a | |
25829 | 713 minor mode. With an argument, the command turns Menu Bar mode on if the |
714 argument is positive, off if the argument is not positive. You can use | |
715 the X resource @samp{menuBarLines} to control the initial setting of | |
31609 | 716 Menu Bar mode. @xref{Resources X}. |
717 | |
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31609 | 719 Expert users often turn off the menu bar, especially on text-only |
720 terminals, where this makes one additional line available for text. If | |
721 the menu bar is off, you can still pop up a menu of its contents with | |
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722 @kbd{C-mouse-3} on a display which supports popup menus. @xref{Menu |
31609 | 723 Mouse Clicks}. |
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725 @xref{Menu Bar}, for information on how to invoke commands with the | |
726 menu bar. | |
727 | |
31609 | 728 @node Tool Bars |
729 @section Tool Bars | |
730 @cindex Tool Bar mode | |
731 @cindex mode, Tool Bar | |
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734 analogously to @code{menu-bar-mode}. @xref{Menu Bars}. This will only | |
735 work in an Emacs built with appropriate image support to display the | |
736 available tool bar icons. | |
737 | |
738 There is a global tool bar with some useful items and various modes may | |
739 define their own tool bars. More could be added if suitable icons are | |
740 contributed. | |
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746 @vindex use-dialog-box |
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754 @section Using Multiple Typefaces | |
755 @cindex faces | |
756 | |
757 When using Emacs with X, you can set up multiple styles of displaying | |
758 characters. The aspects of style that you can control are the type | |
759 font, the foreground color, the background color, and whether to | |
760 underline. Emacs on MS-DOS supports faces partially by letting you | |
761 control the foreground and background colors of each face | |
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765 The way you control display style is by defining named @dfn{faces}. | |
766 Each face can specify a type font, a foreground color, a background | |
767 color, and an underline flag; but it does not have to specify all of | |
768 them. Then by specifying the face or faces to use for a given part | |
769 of the text in the buffer, you control how that text appears. | |
770 | |
771 The style of display used for a given character in the text is | |
772 determined by combining several faces. Any aspect of the display style | |
773 that isn't specified by overlays or text properties comes from the frame | |
774 itself. | |
775 | |
776 Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several | |
777 commands and menus for specifying faces. @xref{Format Faces}, for how | |
778 to specify the font for text in the buffer. @xref{Format Colors}, for | |
779 how to specify the foreground and background color. | |
780 | |
781 To alter the appearance of a face, use the customization buffer. | |
782 @xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify | |
783 attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources X}). | |
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795 To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type | |
796 @kbd{M-x list-faces-display}. It's possible for a given face to look | |
797 different in different frames; this command shows the appearance in the | |
798 frame in which you type it. Here's a list of the standardly defined | |
799 faces: | |
800 | |
801 @table @code | |
802 @item default | |
803 This face is used for ordinary text that doesn't specify any other face. | |
804 @item modeline | |
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811 This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes. | |
812 @item region | |
813 This face is used for displaying a selected region (when Transient Mark | |
814 mode is enabled---see below). | |
815 @item secondary-selection | |
816 This face is used for displaying a secondary selection (@pxref{Secondary | |
817 Selection}). | |
818 @item bold | |
819 This face uses a bold variant of the default font, if it has one. | |
820 @item italic | |
821 This face uses an italic variant of the default font, if it has one. | |
822 @item bold-italic | |
823 This face uses a bold italic variant of the default font, if it has one. | |
824 @item underline | |
825 This face underlines text. | |
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828 @item fringe |
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830 @item scroll-bar |
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831 This face determines the colors of the scroll bar. |
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832 @item border |
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833 This face determines the color of the frame border. |
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838 @item tool-bar |
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839 The basic tool-bar face. |
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840 @item menu |
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841 This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus. Setting the |
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842 font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set |
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843 the font are ignored in this case. |
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844 @item trailing-whitespace |
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845 The face for highlighting trailing whitespace when |
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846 @code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-nil. |
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847 @item variable-pitch |
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848 The basic variable-pitch face. |
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850 | |
851 @cindex @code{region} face | |
852 When Transient Mark mode is enabled, the text of the region is | |
853 highlighted when the mark is active. This uses the face named | |
854 @code{region}; you can control the style of highlighting by changing the | |
855 style of this face (@pxref{Face Customization}). @xref{Transient Mark}, | |
856 for more information about Transient Mark mode and activation and | |
857 deactivation of the mark. | |
858 | |
859 One easy way to use faces is to turn on Font Lock mode. This minor | |
860 mode, which is always local to a particular buffer, arranges to | |
861 choose faces according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It | |
862 can recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several | |
863 languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other | |
864 important constructs. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about | |
865 Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. | |
866 | |
867 You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears | |
868 on your screen using the command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. | |
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871 @node Font Lock | |
872 @section Font Lock mode | |
873 @cindex Font Lock mode | |
874 @cindex mode, Font Lock | |
875 @cindex syntax highlighting | |
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876 @cindex syntax coloring |
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878 Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular | |
879 buffer, which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces | |
880 according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It can | |
881 recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several | |
882 languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other | |
883 important constructs---for example, names of functions being defined | |
884 or reserved keywords. | |
885 | |
886 @findex font-lock-mode | |
887 @findex turn-on-font-lock | |
888 The command @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} turns Font Lock mode on or off | |
889 according to the argument, and toggles the mode when it has no argument. | |
890 The function @code{turn-on-font-lock} unconditionally enables Font Lock | |
891 mode. This is useful in mode-hook functions. For example, to enable | |
892 Font Lock mode whenever you edit a C file, you can do this: | |
893 | |
894 @example | |
895 (add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) | |
896 @end example | |
897 | |
898 @findex global-font-lock-mode | |
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902 function @code{global-font-lock-mode}, like this: |
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904 @example | |
905 (global-font-lock-mode 1) | |
906 @end example | |
907 | |
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909 different parts of text, you can use one of the following: |
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911 @itemize @bullet |
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912 @item |
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913 Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} to |
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914 change the colors of a particular face, such as |
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915 @code{font-lock-variable-name-face}, used by Font Lock. @xref{Faces}. |
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916 The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all the faces |
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917 currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock. |
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920 Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as |
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921 described in @ref{Face Customization}. |
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925 @findex font-lock-fontify-block | |
926 In Font Lock mode, when you edit the text, the highlighting updates | |
927 automatically in the line that you changed. Most changes don't affect | |
928 the highlighting of subsequent lines, but occasionally they do. To | |
929 rehighlight a range of lines, use the command @kbd{M-g M-g} | |
930 (@code{font-lock-fontify-block}). | |
931 | |
932 @vindex font-lock-mark-block-function | |
933 In certain major modes, @kbd{M-g M-g} refontifies the entire current | |
934 function. (The variable @code{font-lock-mark-block-function} controls | |
935 how to find the current function.) In other major modes, @kbd{M-g M-g} | |
936 refontifies 16 lines above and below point. | |
937 | |
938 With a prefix argument @var{n}, @kbd{M-g M-g} refontifies @var{n} | |
939 lines above and below point, regardless of the mode. | |
940 | |
941 To get the full benefit of Font Lock mode, you need to choose a | |
942 default font which has bold, italic, and bold-italic variants; or else | |
943 you need to have a color or gray-scale screen. | |
944 | |
945 @vindex font-lock-maximum-decoration | |
946 The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-decoration} specifies the | |
947 preferred level of fontification, for modes that provide multiple | |
948 levels. Level 1 is the least amount of fontification; some modes | |
949 support levels as high as 3. The normal default is ``as high as | |
950 possible.'' You can specify an integer, which applies to all modes, or | |
951 you can specify different numbers for particular major modes; for | |
952 example, to use level 1 for C/C++ modes, and the default level | |
953 otherwise, use this: | |
954 | |
955 @example | |
956 (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration | |
957 '((c-mode . 1) (c++-mode . 1))) | |
958 @end example | |
959 | |
960 @vindex font-lock-maximum-size | |
961 Fontification can be too slow for large buffers, so you can suppress | |
962 it. The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-size} specifies a buffer size, | |
963 beyond which buffer fontification is suppressed. | |
964 | |
965 @c @w is used below to prevent a bad page-break. | |
966 @vindex font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function | |
967 Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification) | |
968 relies on analysis of the syntactic structure of the buffer text. For | |
969 the purposes of speed, some modes including C mode and Lisp mode rely on | |
970 a special convention: an open-parenthesis in the leftmost column always | |
971 defines the @w{beginning} of a defun, and is thus always outside any string | |
972 or comment. (@xref{Defuns}.) If you don't follow this convention, | |
973 then Font Lock mode can misfontify the text after an open-parenthesis in | |
974 the leftmost column that is inside a string or comment. | |
975 | |
976 The variable @code{font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function} (always | |
977 buffer-local) specifies how Font Lock mode can find a position | |
978 guaranteed to be outside any comment or string. In modes which use the | |
979 leftmost column parenthesis convention, the default value of the variable | |
980 is @code{beginning-of-defun}---that tells Font Lock mode to use the | |
981 convention. If you set this variable to @code{nil}, Font Lock no longer | |
982 relies on the convention. This avoids incorrect results, but the price | |
983 is that, in some cases, fontification for a changed text must rescan | |
984 buffer text from the beginning of the buffer. | |
985 | |
986 @findex font-lock-add-keywords | |
987 Font Lock highlighting patterns already exist for many modes, but you | |
988 may want to fontify additional patterns. You can use the function | |
989 @code{font-lock-add-keywords}, to add your own highlighting patterns for | |
990 a particular mode. For example, to highlight @samp{FIXME:} words in C | |
991 comments, use this: | |
992 | |
993 @example | |
994 (font-lock-add-keywords | |
995 'c-mode | |
996 '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t))) | |
997 @end example | |
998 | |
999 @node Support Modes | |
1000 @section Font Lock Support Modes | |
1001 | |
1002 Font Lock support modes make Font Lock mode faster for large buffers. | |
1003 There are two support modes: Fast Lock mode and Lazy Lock mode. They | |
1004 use two different methods of speeding up Font Lock mode. | |
1005 | |
1006 @menu | |
1007 * Fast Lock Mode:: Saving font information in files. | |
1008 * Lazy Lock Mode:: Fontifying only text that is actually displayed. | |
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1011 @end menu | |
1012 | |
1013 @node Fast Lock Mode | |
1014 @subsection Fast Lock Mode | |
1015 | |
1016 @cindex Fast Lock mode | |
1017 @cindex mode, Fast Lock | |
1018 To make Font Lock mode faster for buffers visiting large files, you | |
1019 can use Fast Lock mode. Fast Lock mode saves the font information for | |
1020 each file in a separate cache file; each time you visit the file, it | |
1021 rereads the font information from the cache file instead of refontifying | |
1022 the text from scratch. | |
1023 | |
1024 @findex fast-lock-mode | |
1025 The command @kbd{M-x fast-lock-mode} turns Fast Lock mode on or off, | |
1026 according to the argument (with no argument, it toggles). You can also | |
1027 arrange to enable Fast Lock mode whenever you use Font Lock mode, like | |
1028 this: | |
1029 | |
1030 @example | |
1031 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'fast-lock-mode) | |
1032 @end example | |
1033 | |
1034 @vindex fast-lock-minimum-size | |
1035 It is not worth writing a cache file for small buffers. Therefore, | |
1036 the variable @code{fast-lock-minimum-size} specifies a minimum file size | |
1037 for caching font information. | |
1038 | |
1039 @vindex fast-lock-cache-directories | |
1040 The variable @code{fast-lock-cache-directories} specifies where to put | |
1041 the cache files. Its value is a list of directories to try; @code{"."} | |
1042 means the same directory as the file being edited. The default value is | |
1043 @w{@code{("." "~/.emacs-flc")}}, which means to use the same directory if | |
1044 possible, and otherwise the directory @file{~/.emacs-flc}. | |
1045 | |
1046 @vindex fast-lock-save-others | |
1047 The variable @code{fast-lock-save-others} specifies whether Fast Lock | |
1048 mode should save cache files for files that you do not own. A | |
1049 non-@code{nil} value means yes (and that is the default). | |
1050 | |
1051 @node Lazy Lock Mode | |
1052 @subsection Lazy Lock Mode | |
1053 @cindex Lazy Lock mode | |
1054 @cindex mode, Lazy Lock | |
1055 | |
1056 To make Font Lock mode faster for large buffers, you can use Lazy Lock | |
1057 mode to reduce the amount of text that is fontified. In Lazy Lock mode, | |
1058 buffer fontification is demand-driven; it happens to portions of the | |
1059 buffer that are about to be displayed. And fontification of your | |
1060 changes is deferred; it happens only when Emacs has been idle for a | |
1061 certain short period of time. | |
1062 | |
1063 @findex lazy-lock-mode | |
1064 The command @kbd{M-x lazy-lock-mode} turns Lazy Lock mode on or off, | |
1065 according to the argument (with no argument, it toggles). You can also | |
1066 arrange to enable Lazy Lock mode whenever you use Font Lock mode, like | |
1067 this: | |
1068 | |
1069 @example | |
1070 (setq font-lock-support-mode 'lazy-lock-mode) | |
1071 @end example | |
1072 | |
1073 @vindex lazy-lock-minimum-size | |
1074 It is not worth avoiding buffer fontification for small buffers. | |
1075 Therefore, the variable @code{lazy-lock-minimum-size} specifies a | |
1076 minimum buffer size for demand-driven buffer fontification. Buffers | |
1077 smaller than that are fontified all at once, as in plain Font Lock mode. | |
1078 | |
1079 @vindex lazy-lock-defer-time | |
1080 When you alter the buffer, Lazy Lock mode defers fontification of the | |
1081 text you changed. The variable @code{lazy-lock-defer-time} specifies | |
1082 how many seconds Emacs must be idle before it starts fontifying your | |
1083 changes. If the value is 0, then changes are fontified immediately, as | |
1084 in plain Font Lock mode. | |
1085 | |
1086 @vindex lazy-lock-defer-on-scrolling | |
1087 Lazy Lock mode normally fontifies newly visible portions of the buffer | |
1088 before they are first displayed. However, if the value of | |
1089 @code{lazy-lock-defer-on-scrolling} is non-@code{nil}, newly visible | |
1090 text is fontified only when Emacs is idle for | |
1091 @code{lazy-lock-defer-time} seconds. | |
1092 | |
1093 @vindex lazy-lock-defer-contextually | |
1094 In some modes, including C mode and Emacs Lisp mode, changes in one | |
1095 line's contents can alter the context for subsequent lines, and thus | |
1096 change how they ought to be fontified. Ordinarily, you must type | |
1097 @kbd{M-g M-g} to refontify the subsequent lines. However, if you set | |
1098 the variable @code{lazy-lock-defer-contextually} to non-@code{nil}, Lazy | |
1099 Lock mode does this automatically, after @code{lazy-lock-defer-time} | |
1100 seconds. | |
1101 | |
1102 @cindex stealth fontification | |
1103 When Emacs is idle for a long time, Lazy Lock fontifies additional | |
1104 portions of the buffer, not yet displayed, in case you will display them | |
1105 later. This is called @dfn{stealth fontification}. | |
1106 | |
1107 @vindex lazy-lock-stealth-time | |
1108 @vindex lazy-lock-stealth-lines | |
1109 @vindex lazy-lock-stealth-verbose | |
1110 The variable @code{lazy-lock-stealth-time} specifies how many seconds | |
1111 Emacs has to be idle before stealth fontification starts. A value of | |
1112 @code{nil} means no stealth fontification. The variables | |
1113 @code{lazy-lock-stealth-lines} and @code{lazy-lock-stealth-verbose} | |
1114 specify the granularity and verbosity of stealth fontification. | |
1115 | |
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1128 @subsection Fast Lock or Lazy Lock? | |
1129 | |
1130 Here is a simple guide to help you choose one of the Font Lock support | |
1131 modes. | |
1132 | |
1133 @itemize @bullet | |
1134 @item | |
1135 Fast Lock mode intervenes only during file visiting and buffer | |
1136 killing (and related events); therefore buffer editing and window | |
1137 scrolling are no faster or slower than in plain Font Lock mode. | |
1138 | |
1139 @item | |
1140 Fast Lock mode is slower at reading a cache file than Lazy Lock | |
1141 mode is at fontifying a window; therefore Fast Lock mode is slower at | |
1142 visiting a file than Lazy Lock mode. | |
1143 | |
1144 @item | |
1145 Lazy Lock mode intervenes during window scrolling to fontify text that | |
1146 scrolls onto the screen; therefore, scrolling is slower than in plain | |
1147 Font Lock mode. | |
1148 | |
1149 @item | |
1150 Lazy Lock mode doesn't fontify during buffer editing (it defers | |
1151 fontification of changes); therefore, editing is faster than in plain | |
1152 Font Lock mode. | |
1153 | |
1154 @item | |
1155 Fast Lock mode can be fooled by a file that is kept under version | |
1156 control software; therefore buffer fontification may occur even when | |
1157 a cache file exists for the file. | |
1158 | |
1159 @item | |
1160 Fast Lock mode only works with a buffer visiting a file; Lazy Lock | |
1161 mode works with any buffer. | |
1162 | |
1163 @item | |
1164 Fast Lock mode generates cache files; Lazy Lock mode does not. | |
1165 @end itemize | |
1166 | |
1167 @vindex font-lock-support-mode | |
1168 The variable @code{font-lock-support-mode} specifies which of these | |
1169 support modes to use; for example, to specify that Fast Lock mode is | |
1170 used for C/C++ modes, and Lazy Lock mode otherwise, set the variable | |
1171 like this: | |
1172 | |
1173 @example | |
1174 (setq font-lock-support-mode | |
1175 '((c-mode . fast-lock-mode) (c++-mode . fast-lock-mode) | |
1176 (t . lazy-lock-mode))) | |
1177 @end example | |
1178 | |
1179 @node Highlight Changes | |
1180 @section Highlight Changes Mode | |
1181 | |
1182 @findex highlight-changes-mode | |
1183 Use @kbd{M-x highlight-changes-mode} to enable a minor mode | |
1184 that uses faces (colors, typically) to indicate which parts of | |
1185 the buffer were changed most recently. | |
1186 | |
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1190 @cindex highlighting, arbitrary text |
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1202 @code{hi-lock-mode} provides several functions: |
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1208 Specify the regular expression (@pxref{Regexps}) for the parts of buffer |
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1210 for the regular expression, then for the name of the face with which to |
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1222 @findex highlight-lines-matching-regexp |
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1224 @cindex highlighting lines of text |
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1225 Specify the regular expression (@pxref{Regexps}) for the lines of buffer |
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1242 @findex hi-lock-find-patterns |
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1243 @vindex hi-lock-exclude-modes |
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28432 | 1272 mouse position, typically over text---including the mode line---which |
1273 can be activated with the mouse or other keys. (This facility is | |
1274 sometimes known as `balloon help'.) Tooltips may be available for menu | |
1275 items too. | |
1276 | |
1277 To use tooltips, customize the user option @code{tooltip-mode}. The | |
1278 customization group @code{tooltip} controls various aspects of their | |
1279 display. If Tooltip mode is not activated, the help text is displayed | |
1280 in the echo area instead. | |
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1283 @section Mouse Avoidance | |
1284 | |
1285 Mouse Avoidance mode keeps the window system mouse pointer away from | |
1286 point to avoid obscuring text. Whenever the mouse is moved, the frame | |
1287 is also raised. To use it, customize the option | |
1288 @code{mouse-avoidance-mode}. You can set this to various values to move | |
1289 the mouse in several ways: | |
1290 | |
1291 @table @code | |
1292 @item banish | |
1293 Move the mouse to the upper-right corner on any keypress; | |
1294 @item exile | |
1295 Move the mouse to the corner only if the cursor gets too close, | |
1296 and allow it to return once the cursor is out of the way; | |
1297 @item jump | |
1298 If the cursor gets too close to the mouse, displace the mouse | |
1299 a random distance & direction; | |
1300 @item animate | |
1301 As @code{jump}, but shows steps along the way for illusion of motion; | |
1302 @item cat-and-mouse | |
1303 The same as @code{animate}; | |
1304 @item proteus | |
1305 As @code{animate}, but changes the shape of the mouse pointer too. | |
1306 @end table | |
1307 | |
1308 You can also use the command @kbd{M-x mouse-avoidance-mode} to turn on | |
1309 the mode. | |
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1312 @section Miscellaneous X Window Features | |
1313 | |
1314 The following commands let you create, delete and operate on frames: | |
1315 | |
1316 @table @kbd | |
1317 @item C-z | |
1318 @kindex C-z @r{(X windows)} | |
1319 @findex iconify-or-deiconify-frame | |
1320 Iconify the selected Emacs frame (@code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}). | |
1321 The normal meaning of @kbd{C-z}, to suspend Emacs, is not useful under a | |
1322 window system, so it has a different binding in that case. | |
1323 | |
1324 If you type this command on an Emacs frame's icon, it deiconifies the frame. | |
1325 | |
1326 @item C-x 5 0 | |
1327 @kindex C-x 5 0 | |
1328 @findex delete-frame | |
1329 Delete the selected frame (@code{delete-frame}). This is not allowed if | |
1330 there is only one frame. | |
1331 | |
1332 @item C-x 5 o | |
1333 @kindex C-x 5 o | |
1334 @findex other-frame | |
1335 Select another frame, raise it, and warp the mouse to it so that it | |
1336 stays selected. If you repeat this command, it cycles through all the | |
1337 frames on your terminal. | |
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1339 @item C-x 5 1 | |
1340 @kindex C-x 5 1 | |
1341 @findex delete-other-frames | |
1342 Delete all frames except the selected one. | |
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1347 Emacs can optionally display a busy cursor on X and other window |
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1348 systems. To turn this on or off, customize the group @code{cursor}. |
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1349 You can also control the amount of time Emacs is busy before the |
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1350 busy-cursor is displayed, by customizing the value of the variable |
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1353 @vindex x-stretch-cursor |
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1354 @cindex wide block cursor |
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1355 Emacs on X can draw the block cursor as wide as the glyph under the |
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1356 cursor. For example, if the cursor is on a TAB character, it is drawn |
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1357 as wide as that TAB is on the display. To turn on this feature, set the |
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1358 variable @code{x-stretch-cursor} to a non-nil value. |
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1360 @vindex indicate-empty-lines |
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1361 @vindex default-indicate-empty-lines |
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1362 @cindex empty lines |
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1363 Empty display lines at the end of the buffer can be optionally marked |
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1365 activated by setting the buffer-local variable |
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1366 @code{indicate-empty-lines} to a non-nil value. The default value of |
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1367 this variable is found in @code{default-indicate-empty-lines}. |
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1370 @section Non-Window Terminals | |
1371 @cindex non-window terminals | |
1372 @cindex single-frame terminals | |
1373 | |
1374 If your terminal does not have a window system that Emacs supports, | |
1375 then it can display only one Emacs frame at a time. However, you can | |
1376 still create multiple Emacs frames, and switch between them. Switching | |
1377 frames on these terminals is much like switching between different | |
1378 window configurations. | |
1379 | |
1380 Use @kbd{C-x 5 2} to create a new frame and switch to it; use @kbd{C-x | |
1381 5 o} to cycle through the existing frames; use @kbd{C-x 5 0} to delete | |
1382 the current frame. | |
1383 | |
1384 Each frame has a number to distinguish it. If your terminal can | |
1385 display only one frame at a time, the selected frame's number @var{n} | |
1386 appears near the beginning of the mode line, in the form | |
1387 @samp{F@var{n}}. | |
1388 | |
1389 @findex set-frame-name | |
1390 @findex select-frame-by-name | |
1391 @samp{F@var{n}} is actually the frame's name. You can also specify a | |
1392 different name if you wish, and you can select a frame by its name. Use | |
1393 the command @kbd{M-x set-frame-name @key{RET} @var{name} @key{RET}} to | |
1394 specify a new name for the selected frame, and use @kbd{M-x | |
1395 select-frame-by-name @key{RET} @var{name} @key{RET}} to select a frame | |
1396 according to its name. The name you specify appears in the mode line | |
1397 when the frame is selected. | |
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