changeset 36553:714ab908c5e1

(Faces, Font Lock, Highlight Changes) (Highlight Interactively, Trailing Whitespace): Move to display.texi.
author Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
date Mon, 05 Mar 2001 19:59:03 +0000
parents 80aa67d879fb
children 9904afd52408
files man/frames.texi
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--- a/man/frames.texi	Mon Mar 05 18:41:37 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/frames.texi	Mon Mar 05 19:59:03 2001 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 2000
+@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 2000, 2001
 @c   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
 @node Frames, International, Windows, Top
@@ -34,12 +34,6 @@
 under X.  However, images, tool bars, and tooltips are not yet
 available on MS Windows as of Emacs version 21.1.
 
-  Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock
-mode) will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more
-than one face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening.  This
-includes the console on GNU/Linux.  Emacs determines automatically
-whether the terminal has this capability.
-
 @menu
 * Mouse Commands::      Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse.
 * Secondary Selection:: Cutting without altering point and mark.
@@ -58,11 +52,6 @@
 * Menu Bars::	        Enabling and disabling the menu bar.
 * Tool Bars::           Enabling and disabling the tool bar.
 * Dialog Boxes::        Controlling use of dialog boxes.
-* Faces::	        How to change the display style using faces.
-* Font Lock::           Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces.
-* Highlight Changes::   Using colors to show where you changed the buffer.
-* Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight.
-* Trailing Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace.
 * Tooltips::            Showing "tooltips", AKA "ballon help" for active text.
 * Mouse Avoidance::     Moving the mouse pointer out of the way.
 * Non-Window Terminals::  Multiple frames on terminals that show only one.
@@ -817,375 +806,6 @@
 use of dialog boxes.  This also controls whether to use file selection
 windows (but those are not supported on all platforms).
 
-@node Faces
-@section Using Multiple Typefaces
-@cindex faces
-
-  When using Emacs with a window system, you can set up multiple
-styles of displaying characters.  The aspects of style that you can
-control are the type font, the foreground color, the background color,
-and whether to underline.  On non-windowed terminals (including
-MS-DOS, @pxref{MS-DOS}), Emacs supports faces to the extent the
-terminal can display them.
-
-  The way you control display style is by defining named @dfn{faces}.
-Each face can specify a type font, a foreground color, a background
-color, and an underline flag; but it does not have to specify all of
-them.  Then by specifying the face or faces to use for a given part
-of the text in the buffer, you control how that text appears.
-
-  The style of display used for a given character in the text is
-determined by combining several faces.  Any aspect of the display style
-that isn't specified by overlays or text properties comes from the frame
-itself.
-
-  Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several
-commands and menus for specifying faces.  @xref{Format Faces}, for how
-to specify the font for text in the buffer.  @xref{Format Colors}, for
-how to specify the foreground and background color.
-
-  To alter the appearance of a face, use the customization buffer.
-@xref{Face Customization}.  You can also use X resources to specify
-attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources X}).
-
-@cindex face colors, setting
-@findex set-face-foreground
-@findex set-face-background
-  Alternatively, you can change the foreground and background colors
-of a specific face with @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} and @kbd{M-x
-set-face-background}.  These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a
-face name and a color name, with completion, and then set that face to
-use the specified color.
-
-@findex list-faces-display
-  To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type
-@kbd{M-x list-faces-display}.  It's possible for a given face to look
-different in different frames; this command shows the appearance in the
-frame in which you type it.  Here's a list of the standardly defined
-faces:
-
-@table @code
-@item default
-This face is used for ordinary text that doesn't specify any other face.
-@item mode-line
-This face is used for mode lines.  By default, it's drawn with shadows
-for a ``raised'' effect on window systems, and drawn as the inverse of
-the default face on non-windowed terminals.  @xref{Display Custom}.
-@item header-line
-Similar to @code{mode-line} for a window's header line.  Most modes
-don't use the header line, but the Info mode does.
-@item highlight
-This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes.
-For example, mouse-sensitive text is highlighted using this face.
-@item isearch
-This face is used for highlighting Isearch matches.
-@item isearch-lazy-highlight-face
-This face is used for lazy highlighting of Isearch matches other than
-the current one.
-@item region
-This face is used for displaying a selected region (when Transient Mark
-mode is enabled---see below).
-@item secondary-selection
-This face is used for displaying a secondary X selection (@pxref{Secondary
-Selection}).
-@item bold
-This face uses a bold variant of the default font, if it has one.
-@item italic
-This face uses an italic variant of the default font, if it has one.
-@item bold-italic
-This face uses a bold italic variant of the default font, if it has one.
-@item underline
-This face underlines text.
-@item fixed-pitch
-The basic fixed-pitch face.
-@item fringe
-@cindex fringe
-The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows on graphic
-displays.  (The fringes are the narrow portions of the Emacs frame
-between the text area and the frame's border.)
-@item scroll-bar
-This face determines the visual appearance of the scroll bar.
-@item border
-This face determines the color of the frame border.
-@item cursor
-This face determines the color of the cursor.
-@item mouse
-This face determines the color of the mouse pointer.
-@item tool-bar
-This is the basic tool-bar face.  No text appears in the tool bar, but the
-colors of this face affect the appearance of tool bar icons.
-@item tooltip
-This face is used for tooltips.
-@item menu
-This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus.  Setting the
-font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set
-the font are ignored in this case.
-@item trailing-whitespace
-The face for highlighting trailing whitespace when
-@code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-nil.
-@item variable-pitch
-The basic variable-pitch face.
-@end table
-
-@cindex @code{region} face
-  When Transient Mark mode is enabled, the text of the region is
-highlighted when the mark is active.  This uses the face named
-@code{region}; you can control the style of highlighting by changing the
-style of this face (@pxref{Face Customization}).  @xref{Transient Mark},
-for more information about Transient Mark mode and activation and
-deactivation of the mark.
-
-  One easy way to use faces is to turn on Font Lock mode.  This minor
-mode, which is always local to a particular buffer, arranges to
-choose faces according to the syntax of the text you are editing.  It
-can recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several
-languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other
-important constructs.  @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about
-Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting.
-
-  You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears
-on your screen using the command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}.
-@xref{PostScript}.
-
-@node Font Lock
-@section Font Lock mode
-@cindex Font Lock mode
-@cindex mode, Font Lock
-@cindex syntax highlighting and coloring
-
-  Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular
-buffer, which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces
-according to the syntax of the text you are editing.  It can
-recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several
-languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other
-important constructs---for example, names of functions being defined
-or reserved keywords.
-
-@findex font-lock-mode
-@findex turn-on-font-lock
-  The command @kbd{M-x font-lock-mode} turns Font Lock mode on or off
-according to the argument, and toggles the mode when it has no argument.
-The function @code{turn-on-font-lock} unconditionally enables Font Lock
-mode.  This is useful in mode-hook functions.  For example, to enable
-Font Lock mode whenever you edit a C file, you can do this:
-
-@example
-(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
-@end example
-
-@findex global-font-lock-mode
-@vindex global-font-lock-mode
-  To turn on Font Lock mode automatically in all modes which support
-it, customize the user option @code{global-font-lock-mode} or use the
-function @code{global-font-lock-mode} in your @file{.emacs} file, like
-this:
-
-@example
-(global-font-lock-mode 1)
-@end example
-
-  Font Lock mode uses several specifically named faces to do its job,
-including @code{font-lock-string-face}, @code{font-lock-comment-face},
-and others.  The easiest way to find them all is to use completion
-on the face name in @code{set-face-foreground}.
-
-  To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify
-different parts of text, just change these faces.  There are
-two ways to do it:
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background}
-to change the colors of a particular face used by Font Lock.
-@xref{Faces}.  The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all
-the faces currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock.
-
-@item
-Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as
-described in @ref{Face Customization}.
-@end itemize
-
-@kindex M-g M-g
-@findex font-lock-fontify-block
-  In Font Lock mode, when you edit the text, the highlighting updates
-automatically in the line that you changed.  Most changes don't affect
-the highlighting of subsequent lines, but occasionally they do.  To
-rehighlight a range of lines, use the command @kbd{M-g M-g}
-(@code{font-lock-fontify-block}).
-
-@vindex font-lock-mark-block-function
-  In certain major modes, @kbd{M-g M-g} refontifies the entire current
-function.  (The variable @code{font-lock-mark-block-function} controls
-how to find the current function.)  In other major modes, @kbd{M-g M-g}
-refontifies 16 lines above and below point.
-
-  With a prefix argument @var{n}, @kbd{M-g M-g} refontifies @var{n}
-lines above and below point, regardless of the mode.
-
-  To get the full benefit of Font Lock mode, you need to choose a
-default font which has bold, italic, and bold-italic variants; or else
-you need to have a color or gray-scale screen.
-
-@vindex font-lock-maximum-decoration
-  The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-decoration} specifies the
-preferred level of fontification, for modes that provide multiple
-levels.  Level 1 is the least amount of fontification; some modes
-support levels as high as 3.  The normal default is ``as high as
-possible.''  You can specify an integer, which applies to all modes, or
-you can specify different numbers for particular major modes; for
-example, to use level 1 for C/C++ modes, and the default level
-otherwise, use this:
-
-@example
-(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration
-      '((c-mode . 1) (c++-mode . 1)))
-@end example
-
-@vindex font-lock-maximum-size
-  Fontification can be too slow for large buffers, so you can suppress
-it.  The variable @code{font-lock-maximum-size} specifies a buffer size,
-beyond which buffer fontification is suppressed.
-
-@c @w is used below to prevent a bad page-break.
-@vindex font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function
-  Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification)
-relies on analysis of the syntactic structure of the buffer text.  For
-the purposes of speed, some modes including C mode and Lisp mode rely on
-a special convention: an open-parenthesis in the leftmost column always
-defines the @w{beginning} of a defun, and is thus always outside any string
-or comment.  (@xref{Defuns}.)  If you don't follow this convention,
-then Font Lock mode can misfontify the text after an open-parenthesis in
-the leftmost column that is inside a string or comment.
-
-  The variable @code{font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function} (always
-buffer-local) specifies how Font Lock mode can find a position
-guaranteed to be outside any comment or string.  In modes which use the
-leftmost column parenthesis convention, the default value of the variable
-is @code{beginning-of-defun}---that tells Font Lock mode to use the
-convention.  If you set this variable to @code{nil}, Font Lock no longer
-relies on the convention.  This avoids incorrect results, but the price
-is that, in some cases, fontification for a changed text must rescan
-buffer text from the beginning of the buffer.
-
-@findex font-lock-add-keywords
-  Font Lock highlighting patterns already exist for many modes, but you
-may want to fontify additional patterns.  You can use the function
-@code{font-lock-add-keywords}, to add your own highlighting patterns for
-a particular mode.  For example, to highlight @samp{FIXME:} words in C
-comments, use this:
-
-@example
-(font-lock-add-keywords
- 'c-mode
- '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 font-lock-warning-face t)))
-@end example
-
-@node Highlight Changes
-@section Highlight Changes Mode
-
-@findex highlight-changes-mode
-  Use @kbd{M-x highlight-changes-mode} to enable a minor mode
-that uses faces (colors, typically) to indicate which parts of
-the buffer were changed most recently.
-
-@node Highlight Interactively
-@section Interactive Highlighting by Matching
-@cindex highlighting by matching
-@cindex interactive highlighting
-
-  It is sometimes useful to highlight the strings that match a certain
-regular expression.  For example, you might wish to see all the
-references to a certain variable in a program source file, or highlight
-certain parts in a voluminous output of some program, or make certain
-cliches stand out in an article.
-
-@findex hi-lock-mode
-  Use the @kbd{M-x hi-lock-mode} command to turn on a minor mode that
-allows you to specify regular expressions of the text to be
-highlighted.  Hi-lock mode works like Font Lock (@pxref{Font Lock}),
-except that it lets you specify explicitly what parts of text to
-highlight.  You control Hi-lock mode with these commands:
-
-@table @kbd
-@item C-x w h @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET}
-@kindex C-x w h
-@findex highlight-regexp
-Highlight text that matches
-@var{regexp} using face @var{face} (@code{highlight-regexp}).
-By using this command more than once, you can highlight various
-parts of the text in different ways.
-
-@item C-x w r @var{regexp} @key{RET}
-@kindex C-x w r
-@findex unhighlight-regexp
-Unhighlight @var{regexp} (@code{unhighlight-regexp}).  You must enter
-one of the regular expressions currently specified for highlighting.
-(You can use completion, or a menu, to enter one of them
-conveniently.)
-
-@item C-x w l @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{face} @key{RET}
-@kindex C-x w l
-@findex highlight-lines-matching-regexp
-@cindex lines, highlighting
-@cindex highlighting lines of text
-Highlight lines containing a match for @var{regexp}, using face
-@var{face} (@code{highlight-lines-matching-regexp}).
-
-@item C-x w b
-@kindex C-x w b
-@findex hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns
-Insert all the current highlighting regexp/face pairs into the buffer
-at point, with comment delimiters to prevent them from changing your
-program.  This key binding runs the
-@code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns} command.
-
-These patterns will be read the next time you visit the file while
-Hi-lock mode is enabled, or whenever you use the @kbd{M-x
-hi-lock-find-patterns} command.
-
-@item C-x w i
-@kindex C-x w i
-@findex hi-lock-find-patterns
-@vindex hi-lock-exclude-modes
-Re-read regexp/face pairs in the current buffer
-(@code{hi-lock-write-interactive-patterns}).  The list of pairs is
-found no matter where in the buffer it may be.
-
-This command does nothing if the major mode is a member of the list
-@code{hi-lock-exclude-modes}.
-@end table
-
-@node Trailing Whitespace
-@section Trailing Whitespace
-
-@cindex trailing whitespace
-@cindex whitespace, trailing
-@vindex show-trailing-whitespace
-  It is easy to leave unnecessary spaces at the end of a line without
-realizing it.  In most cases, this @dfn{trailing whitespace} has no
-effect, but there are special circumstances where it matters.
-
-  You can make trailing whitespace visible on the screen by setting
-the variable @code{show-trailing-whitespace} to @code{t}.  Then Emacs
-displays trailing whitespace in the face @code{trailing-whitespace}.
-
-  Trailing whitespace is defined as spaces or tabs at the end of a
-line.  But trailing whitespace is not displayed specially if point is
-at the end of the line containing the whitespace.  (Doing that looks
-ugly while you are typing in new text, and the location of point is
-enough in that case to show you that the spaces are present.)
-
-@vindex indicate-empty-lines
-@vindex default-indicate-empty-lines
-@cindex empty lines
-  Emacs can indicate empty lines at the end of the buffer with a
-special bitmap on the left fringe of the window.  To enable this
-feature, set the buffer-local variable @code{indicate-empty-lines} to
-a non-@code{nil} value.  The default value of this variable is
-controlled by the variable @code{default-indicate-empty-lines};
-by setting that variable, you can enable or disable this feature
-for all new buffers.
-
 @node Tooltips
 @section Tooltips (or ``Balloon Help'')