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37 Emacs Display **************** 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 Displaying messages at the bottom of the screen.
· Warnings Displaying warning messages for the user.
· Invisible Text Hiding part of the buffer text.
· Selective Display Hiding part of the buffer text (the old way).
· Temporary Displays Displays that go away automatically.
· Overlays Use overlays to highlight parts of the buffer.
· Size of Displayed Text How large displayed text is.
· Line Height Controlling the height of lines.
· Faces A face defines a graphics style for text characters:
font, colors, etc.
· Fringes Controlling window fringes.
· Scroll Bars Controlling scroll bars.
· Window Dividers Separating windows visually.
· Display Property Enabling special display features.
· Images Displaying images in Emacs buffers.
· Xwidgets Displaying native widgets in Emacs buffers.
· Buttons Adding clickable buttons to Emacs buffers.
· Abstract Display Emacs’s Widget for Object Collections.
· Blinking How Emacs shows the matching open parenthesis.
· Character Display How Emacs displays individual characters.
· Beeping Audible signal to the user.
· Window Systems Which window system is being used.
· Tooltips Tooltip display in Emacs.
· Bidirectional Display Display of bidirectional scripts, such as
Arabic and Farsi.