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(elisp)Display
Emacs Display
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This chapter describes a number of features related to the display
that Emacs presents to the user.
- Refresh Screen
- Clearing the screen and redrawing everything on it.
- Forcing Redisplay
- Forcing redisplay.
- Truncation
- Folding or wrapping long text lines.
- The Echo Area
- Where messages are displayed.
- Invisible Text
- Hiding part of the buffer text.
- Selective Display
- Hiding part of the buffer text (the old way).
- Overlay Arrow
- Display of an arrow to indicate position.
- Temporary Displays
- Displays that go away automatically.
- Overlays
- Use overlays to highlight parts of the buffer.
- Width
- How wide a character or string is on the screen.
- Faces
- A face defines a graphics style for text characters:
font, colors, etc.
- Display Property
- Enabling special display features.
- Images
- Displaying images in Emacs buffers.
- Blinking
- How Emacs shows the matching open parenthesis.
- Inverse Video
- Specifying how the screen looks.
- Usual Display
- The usual conventions for displaying nonprinting chars.
- Display Tables
- How to specify other conventions.
- Beeping
- Audible signal to the user.
- Window Systems
- Which window system is being used.
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