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Chapter 35: 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.
  • Screen Size How big is the Emacs screen.
  • 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.
  • Faces A face defines a graphics appearance: font, color, etc.
  • 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.