* Display Custom:: Information on variables for customizing display.
@end menu
+@node Scrolling
+@section Scrolling
+
+ If a buffer contains text that is too large to fit entirely within a
+window that is displaying the buffer, Emacs shows a contiguous portion of
+the text. The portion shown always contains point.
+
+@cindex scrolling
+ @dfn{Scrolling} means moving text up or down in the window so that
+different parts of the text are visible. Scrolling ``forward'' or
+``up'' means that text moves up, and new text appears at the bottom.
+Scrolling ``backward'' or ``down'' moves text down, and new text
+appears at the top.
+
+ Scrolling happens automatically if you move point past the bottom or
+top of the window. You can also scroll explicitly with the commands
+in this section.
+
+@table @kbd
+@item C-l
+Clear screen and redisplay, scrolling the selected window to center
+point vertically within it (@code{recenter}).
+@item C-v
+Scroll forward (a windowful or a specified number of lines) (@code{scroll-up}).
+@item @key{NEXT}
+@itemx @key{PAGEDOWN}
+Likewise, scroll forward.
+@item M-v
+Scroll backward (@code{scroll-down}).
+@item @key{PRIOR}
+@itemx @key{PAGEUP}
+Likewise, scroll backward.
+@item @var{arg} C-l
+Scroll so point is on line @var{arg} (@code{recenter}).
+@item C-M-l
+Scroll heuristically to bring useful information onto the screen
+(@code{reposition-window}).
+@end table
+
+@kindex C-l
+@findex recenter
+ The most basic scrolling command is @kbd{C-l} (@code{recenter}) with
+no argument. It scrolls the selected window so that point is halfway
+down from the top of the window. On a text terminal, it also clears
+the screen and redisplays all windows. That is useful in case the
+screen is garbled (@pxref{Screen Garbled}).
+
+@kindex C-v
+@kindex M-v
+@kindex NEXT
+@kindex PRIOR
+@kindex PAGEDOWN
+@kindex PAGEUP
+@findex scroll-up
+@findex scroll-down
+@vindex next-screen-context-lines
+ To read the buffer a windowful at a time, use @kbd{C-v}
+(@code{scroll-up}) with no argument. This scrolls forward by nearly
+the whole window height. The effect is to take the two lines at the
+bottom of the window and put them at the top, followed by nearly a
+whole windowful of lines that were not previously visible. If point
+was in the text that scrolled off the top, it ends up at the new top
+of the window.
+
+ @kbd{M-v} (@code{scroll-down}) with no argument scrolls backward in
+a similar way, also with overlap. The number of lines of overlap
+across a @kbd{C-v} or @kbd{M-v} is controlled by the variable
+@code{next-screen-context-lines}; by default, it is 2. The function
+keys @key{NEXT} and @key{PRIOR}, or @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP},
+are equivalent to @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v}.
+
+ The commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} with a numeric argument scroll
+the text in the selected window up or down a few lines. @kbd{C-v}
+with an argument moves the text and point up, together, that many
+lines; it brings the same number of new lines into view at the bottom
+of the window. @kbd{M-v} with numeric argument scrolls the text
+downward, bringing that many new lines into view at the top of the
+window. @kbd{C-v} with a negative argument is like @kbd{M-v} and vice
+versa.
+
+ The names of scroll commands are based on the direction that the
+text moves in the window. Thus, the command to scroll forward is
+called @code{scroll-up} because it moves the text upward on the
+screen. The keys @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP} derive their names
+and customary meanings from a different convention that developed
+elsewhere; hence the strange result that @key{PAGEDOWN} runs
+@code{scroll-up}.
+
+@vindex scroll-preserve-screen-position
+ Some users like the full-screen scroll commands to keep point at the
+same screen line. To enable this behavior, set the variable
+@code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} to a non-@code{nil} value. In
+this mode, when scrolling shifts point off the screen, or into the
+scrolling margins, Emacs moves point to keep the same vertical
+position within the window. This mode is convenient for browsing
+through a file by scrolling by screenfuls; if you come back to the
+screen where you started, point goes back to the line where it
+started. However, this mode is inconvenient when you move to the next
+screen in order to move point to the text there.
+
+ Another way to do scrolling is with @kbd{C-l} with a numeric argument.
+@kbd{C-l} does not clear the screen when given an argument; it only scrolls
+the selected window. With a positive argument @var{n}, it repositions text
+to put point @var{n} lines down from the top. An argument of zero puts
+point on the very top line. Point does not move with respect to the text;
+rather, the text and point move rigidly on the screen. @kbd{C-l} with a
+negative argument puts point that many lines from the bottom of the window.
+For example, @kbd{C-u - 1 C-l} puts point on the bottom line, and @kbd{C-u
+- 5 C-l} puts it five lines from the bottom. @kbd{C-u C-l} scrolls to put
+point at the center (vertically) of the selected window.
+
+@kindex C-M-l
+@findex reposition-window
+ The @kbd{C-M-l} command (@code{reposition-window}) scrolls the current
+window heuristically in a way designed to get useful information onto
+the screen. For example, in a Lisp file, this command tries to get the
+entire current defun onto the screen if possible.
+
+@vindex scroll-conservatively
+ Scrolling happens automatically when point moves out of the visible
+portion of the text. Normally, automatic scrolling centers point
+vertically within the window. However, if you set
+@code{scroll-conservatively} to a small number @var{n}, then if you
+move point just a little off the screen---less than @var{n}
+lines---then Emacs scrolls the text just far enough to bring point
+back on screen. By default, @code{scroll-conservatively} is 0.
+
+@cindex aggressive scrolling
+@vindex scroll-up-aggressively
+@vindex scroll-down-aggressively
+ When the window does scroll by a longer distance, you can control
+how aggressively it scrolls, by setting the variables
+@code{scroll-up-aggressively} and @code{scroll-down-aggressively}.
+The value of @code{scroll-up-aggressively} should be either
+@code{nil}, or a fraction @var{f} between 0 and 1. A fraction
+specifies where on the screen to put point when scrolling upward.
+More precisely, when a window scrolls up because point is above the
+window start, the new start position is chosen to put point @var{f}
+part of the window height from the top. The larger @var{f}, the more
+aggressive the scrolling.
+
+ @code{nil}, which is the default, scrolls to put point at the center.
+So it is equivalent to .5.
+
+ Likewise, @code{scroll-down-aggressively} is used for scrolling
+down. The value, @var{f}, specifies how far point should be placed
+from the bottom of the window; thus, as with
+@code{scroll-up-aggressively}, a larger value is more aggressive.
+
+@vindex scroll-margin
+ The variable @code{scroll-margin} restricts how close point can come
+to the top or bottom of a window. Its value is a number of screen
+lines; if point comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the
+window, Emacs recenters the window. By default, @code{scroll-margin} is
+0.
+
+@node Horizontal Scrolling
+@section Horizontal Scrolling
+@cindex horizontal scrolling
+
+ @dfn{Horizontal scrolling} means shifting all the lines sideways
+within a window---so that some of the text near the left margin is not
+displayed at all. When the text in a window is scrolled horizontally,
+text lines are truncated rather than continued (@pxref{Display
+Custom}). Whenever a window shows truncated lines, Emacs
+automatically updates its horizontal scrolling whenever point moves
+off the left or right edge of the screen. You can also use these
+commands to do explicit horizontal scrolling.
+
+@table @kbd
+@item C-x <
+Scroll text in current window to the left (@code{scroll-left}).
+@item C-x >
+Scroll to the right (@code{scroll-right}).
+@end table
+
+@kindex C-x <
+@kindex C-x >
+@findex scroll-left
+@findex scroll-right
+ The command @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected
+window to the left by @var{n} columns with argument @var{n}. This moves
+part of the beginning of each line off the left edge of the window.
+With no argument, it scrolls by almost the full width of the window (two
+columns less, to be precise).
+
+ @kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right. The
+window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is displayed
+normally (with each line starting at the window's left margin);
+attempting to do so has no effect. This means that you don't have to
+calculate the argument precisely for @w{@kbd{C-x >}}; any sufficiently large
+argument will restore the normal display.
+
+ If you use those commands to scroll a window horizontally, that sets
+a lower bound for automatic horizontal scrolling. Automatic scrolling
+will continue to scroll the window, but never farther to the right
+than the amount you previously set by @code{scroll-left}.
+
+@vindex hscroll-margin
+ The value of the variable @code{hscroll-margin} controls how close
+to the window's edges point is allowed to get before the window will
+be automatically scrolled. It is measured in columns. If the value
+is 5, then moving point within 5 columns of the edge causes horizontal
+scrolling away from that edge.
+
+@vindex hscroll-step
+ The variable @code{hscroll-step} determines how many columns to
+scroll the window when point gets too close to the edge. If it's
+zero, horizontal scrolling centers point horizontally within the
+window. If it's a positive integer, it specifies the number of
+columns to scroll by. If it's a floating-point number, it specifies
+the fraction of the window's width to scroll by. The default is zero.
+
+@vindex auto-hscroll-mode
+ To disable automatic horizontal scrolling, set the variable
+@code{auto-hscroll-mode} to @code{nil}.
+
+@node Follow Mode
+@section Follow Mode
+@cindex Follow mode
+@cindex mode, Follow
+@findex follow-mode
+@cindex windows, synchronizing
+@cindex synchronizing windows
+
+ @dfn{Follow mode} is a minor mode that makes two windows, both
+showing the same buffer, scroll as a single tall ``virtual window.''
+To use Follow mode, go to a frame with just one window, split it into
+two side-by-side windows using @kbd{C-x 3}, and then type @kbd{M-x
+follow-mode}. From then on, you can edit the buffer in either of the
+two windows, or scroll either one; the other window follows it.
+
+ In Follow mode, if you move point outside the portion visible in one
+window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects
+the other window---again, treating the two as if they were parts of
+one large window.
+
+ To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time.
+
@node Faces
@section Using Multiple Typefaces
@cindex faces
@code{hi-lock-exclude-modes}.
@end table
-@node Scrolling
-@section Scrolling
-
- If a buffer contains text that is too large to fit entirely within a
-window that is displaying the buffer, Emacs shows a contiguous portion of
-the text. The portion shown always contains point.
-
-@cindex scrolling
- @dfn{Scrolling} means moving text up or down in the window so that
-different parts of the text are visible. Scrolling ``forward'' or
-``up'' means that text moves up, and new text appears at the bottom.
-Scrolling ``backward'' or ``down'' moves text down, and new text
-appears at the top.
-
- Scrolling happens automatically if you move point past the bottom or
-top of the window. You can also scroll explicitly with the commands
-in this section.
-
-@table @kbd
-@item C-l
-Clear screen and redisplay, scrolling the selected window to center
-point vertically within it (@code{recenter}).
-@item C-v
-Scroll forward (a windowful or a specified number of lines) (@code{scroll-up}).
-@item @key{NEXT}
-@itemx @key{PAGEDOWN}
-Likewise, scroll forward.
-@item M-v
-Scroll backward (@code{scroll-down}).
-@item @key{PRIOR}
-@itemx @key{PAGEUP}
-Likewise, scroll backward.
-@item @var{arg} C-l
-Scroll so point is on line @var{arg} (@code{recenter}).
-@item C-M-l
-Scroll heuristically to bring useful information onto the screen
-(@code{reposition-window}).
-@end table
-
-@kindex C-l
-@findex recenter
- The most basic scrolling command is @kbd{C-l} (@code{recenter}) with
-no argument. It scrolls the selected window so that point is halfway
-down from the top of the window. On a text terminal, it also clears
-the screen and redisplays all windows. That is useful in case the
-screen is garbled (@pxref{Screen Garbled}).
-
-@kindex C-v
-@kindex M-v
-@kindex NEXT
-@kindex PRIOR
-@kindex PAGEDOWN
-@kindex PAGEUP
-@findex scroll-up
-@findex scroll-down
-@vindex next-screen-context-lines
- To read the buffer a windowful at a time, use @kbd{C-v}
-(@code{scroll-up}) with no argument. This scrolls forward by nearly
-the whole window height. The effect is to take the two lines at the
-bottom of the window and put them at the top, followed by nearly a
-whole windowful of lines that were not previously visible. If point
-was in the text that scrolled off the top, it ends up at the new top
-of the window.
-
- @kbd{M-v} (@code{scroll-down}) with no argument scrolls backward in
-a similar way, also with overlap. The number of lines of overlap
-across a @kbd{C-v} or @kbd{M-v} is controlled by the variable
-@code{next-screen-context-lines}; by default, it is 2. The function
-keys @key{NEXT} and @key{PRIOR}, or @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP},
-are equivalent to @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v}.
-
- The commands @kbd{C-v} and @kbd{M-v} with a numeric argument scroll
-the text in the selected window up or down a few lines. @kbd{C-v}
-with an argument moves the text and point up, together, that many
-lines; it brings the same number of new lines into view at the bottom
-of the window. @kbd{M-v} with numeric argument scrolls the text
-downward, bringing that many new lines into view at the top of the
-window. @kbd{C-v} with a negative argument is like @kbd{M-v} and vice
-versa.
-
- The names of scroll commands are based on the direction that the
-text moves in the window. Thus, the command to scroll forward is
-called @code{scroll-up} because it moves the text upward on the
-screen. The keys @key{PAGEDOWN} and @key{PAGEUP} derive their names
-and customary meanings from a different convention that developed
-elsewhere; hence the strange result that @key{PAGEDOWN} runs
-@code{scroll-up}.
-
-@vindex scroll-preserve-screen-position
- Some users like the full-screen scroll commands to keep point at the
-same screen line. To enable this behavior, set the variable
-@code{scroll-preserve-screen-position} to a non-@code{nil} value. In
-this mode, when scrolling shifts point off the screen, or into the
-scrolling margins, Emacs moves point to keep the same vertical
-position within the window. This mode is convenient for browsing
-through a file by scrolling by screenfuls; if you come back to the
-screen where you started, point goes back to the line where it
-started. However, this mode is inconvenient when you move to the next
-screen in order to move point to the text there.
-
- Another way to do scrolling is with @kbd{C-l} with a numeric argument.
-@kbd{C-l} does not clear the screen when given an argument; it only scrolls
-the selected window. With a positive argument @var{n}, it repositions text
-to put point @var{n} lines down from the top. An argument of zero puts
-point on the very top line. Point does not move with respect to the text;
-rather, the text and point move rigidly on the screen. @kbd{C-l} with a
-negative argument puts point that many lines from the bottom of the window.
-For example, @kbd{C-u - 1 C-l} puts point on the bottom line, and @kbd{C-u
-- 5 C-l} puts it five lines from the bottom. @kbd{C-u C-l} scrolls to put
-point at the center (vertically) of the selected window.
-
-@kindex C-M-l
-@findex reposition-window
- The @kbd{C-M-l} command (@code{reposition-window}) scrolls the current
-window heuristically in a way designed to get useful information onto
-the screen. For example, in a Lisp file, this command tries to get the
-entire current defun onto the screen if possible.
-
-@vindex scroll-conservatively
- Scrolling happens automatically when point moves out of the visible
-portion of the text. Normally, automatic scrolling centers point
-vertically within the window. However, if you set
-@code{scroll-conservatively} to a small number @var{n}, then if you
-move point just a little off the screen---less than @var{n}
-lines---then Emacs scrolls the text just far enough to bring point
-back on screen. By default, @code{scroll-conservatively} is 0.
-
-@cindex aggressive scrolling
-@vindex scroll-up-aggressively
-@vindex scroll-down-aggressively
- When the window does scroll by a longer distance, you can control
-how aggressively it scrolls, by setting the variables
-@code{scroll-up-aggressively} and @code{scroll-down-aggressively}.
-The value of @code{scroll-up-aggressively} should be either
-@code{nil}, or a fraction @var{f} between 0 and 1. A fraction
-specifies where on the screen to put point when scrolling upward.
-More precisely, when a window scrolls up because point is above the
-window start, the new start position is chosen to put point @var{f}
-part of the window height from the top. The larger @var{f}, the more
-aggressive the scrolling.
-
- @code{nil}, which is the default, scrolls to put point at the center.
-So it is equivalent to .5.
-
- Likewise, @code{scroll-down-aggressively} is used for scrolling
-down. The value, @var{f}, specifies how far point should be placed
-from the bottom of the window; thus, as with
-@code{scroll-up-aggressively}, a larger value is more aggressive.
-
-@vindex scroll-margin
- The variable @code{scroll-margin} restricts how close point can come
-to the top or bottom of a window. Its value is a number of screen
-lines; if point comes within that many lines of the top or bottom of the
-window, Emacs recenters the window. By default, @code{scroll-margin} is
-0.
-
-@node Horizontal Scrolling
-@section Horizontal Scrolling
-@cindex horizontal scrolling
-
- @dfn{Horizontal scrolling} means shifting all the lines sideways
-within a window---so that some of the text near the left margin is not
-displayed at all. When the text in a window is scrolled horizontally,
-text lines are truncated rather than continued (@pxref{Display
-Custom}). Whenever a window shows truncated lines, Emacs
-automatically updates its horizontal scrolling whenever point moves
-off the left or right edge of the screen. You can also use these
-commands to do explicit horizontal scrolling.
-
-@table @kbd
-@item C-x <
-Scroll text in current window to the left (@code{scroll-left}).
-@item C-x >
-Scroll to the right (@code{scroll-right}).
-@end table
-
-@kindex C-x <
-@kindex C-x >
-@findex scroll-left
-@findex scroll-right
- The command @kbd{C-x <} (@code{scroll-left}) scrolls the selected
-window to the left by @var{n} columns with argument @var{n}. This moves
-part of the beginning of each line off the left edge of the window.
-With no argument, it scrolls by almost the full width of the window (two
-columns less, to be precise).
-
- @kbd{C-x >} (@code{scroll-right}) scrolls similarly to the right. The
-window cannot be scrolled any farther to the right once it is displayed
-normally (with each line starting at the window's left margin);
-attempting to do so has no effect. This means that you don't have to
-calculate the argument precisely for @w{@kbd{C-x >}}; any sufficiently large
-argument will restore the normal display.
-
- If you use those commands to scroll a window horizontally, that sets
-a lower bound for automatic horizontal scrolling. Automatic scrolling
-will continue to scroll the window, but never farther to the right
-than the amount you previously set by @code{scroll-left}.
-
-@vindex hscroll-margin
- The value of the variable @code{hscroll-margin} controls how close
-to the window's edges point is allowed to get before the window will
-be automatically scrolled. It is measured in columns. If the value
-is 5, then moving point within 5 columns of the edge causes horizontal
-scrolling away from that edge.
-
-@vindex hscroll-step
- The variable @code{hscroll-step} determines how many columns to
-scroll the window when point gets too close to the edge. If it's
-zero, horizontal scrolling centers point horizontally within the
-window. If it's a positive integer, it specifies the number of
-columns to scroll by. If it's a floating-point number, it specifies
-the fraction of the window's width to scroll by. The default is zero.
-
-@vindex auto-hscroll-mode
- To disable automatic horizontal scrolling, set the variable
-@code{auto-hscroll-mode} to @code{nil}.
-
@node Fringes
@section Window Fringes
@cindex fringes
can enable or disable this feature for all new buffers. (This feature
currently doesn't work on text-only terminals.)
-@node Follow Mode
-@section Follow Mode
-@cindex Follow mode
-@cindex mode, Follow
-@findex follow-mode
-@cindex windows, synchronizing
-@cindex synchronizing windows
-
- @dfn{Follow mode} is a minor mode that makes two windows, both
-showing the same buffer, scroll as a single tall ``virtual window.''
-To use Follow mode, go to a frame with just one window, split it into
-two side-by-side windows using @kbd{C-x 3}, and then type @kbd{M-x
-follow-mode}. From then on, you can edit the buffer in either of the
-two windows, or scroll either one; the other window follows it.
-
- In Follow mode, if you move point outside the portion visible in one
-window and into the portion visible in the other window, that selects
-the other window---again, treating the two as if they were parts of
-one large window.
-
- To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time.
-
@node Selective Display
@section Selective Display
@cindex selective display
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