From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:56:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Faces): Explain what the fringes are, and add an index entry. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.99~129 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12f1370484630036d3a5a41434075a61ecaa1b90;p=emacs.git (Faces): Explain what the fringes are, and add an index entry. --- diff --git a/man/frames.texi b/man/frames.texi index 96ce71c7dd1..fe62b8b2cda 100644 --- a/man/frames.texi +++ b/man/frames.texi @@ -881,14 +881,16 @@ 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{modeline} for a window's header line. +Similar to @code{modeline} 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 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 selection (@pxref{Secondary +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. @@ -901,9 +903,12 @@ This face underlines text. @item fixed-pitch The basic fixed-pitch face. @item fringe -The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows under X. +@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 colors of the 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