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@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
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@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93-95, 97, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
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@node Frames, International, Windows, Top
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@chapter Frames and X Windows
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@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ frame.
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so that you can use many of the features described in this chapter.
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@xref{MS-DOS Input}, for more information.
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@cindex MS Windows
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Emacs compiled for MS Windows mostly supports the same features as
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under X.
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Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode)
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will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one
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face, whether by colors or underlining and emboldening, such as the
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Linux console. Emacs determines automatically whether the terminal has
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such support.
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@menu
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* Mouse Commands:: Moving, cutting, and pasting, with the mouse.
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* Secondary Selection:: Cutting without altering point and mark.
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@ -40,13 +50,19 @@ so that you can use many of the features described in this chapter.
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* Special Buffer Frames:: You can make certain buffers have their own frames.
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* Frame Parameters:: Changing the colors and other modes of frames.
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* Scroll Bars:: How to enable and disable scroll bars; how to use them.
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* Wheeled Mice:: Using mouse wheels for scrolling.
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* Menu Bars:: Enabling and disabling the menu bar.
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@c * Tool Bars:: Enabling and disabling the tool bar.
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* Dialog Boxes:: Controlling use of dialog boxes.
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* Faces:: How to change the display style using faces.
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* Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces.
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* Support Modes:: Font Lock support modes make Font Lock faster.
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* Highlight Changes:: Using colors to show where you changed the buffer.
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* Misc X:: Iconifying and deleting frames. Region highlighting.
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* Trailing Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace.
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* Tooltips:: Showing `tooltips', AKA `ballon help' for active text.
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* Misc X:: Iconifying and deleting frames.
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* Non-Window Terminals:: Multiple frames on terminals that show only one.
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* XTerm Mouse:: Using the mouse in an XTerm terminal emulator.
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@end menu
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@node Mouse Commands
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@kbd{C-Mouse-2} on a scroll bar splits the corresponding window
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vertically. @xref{Split Window}.
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The commands above apply to areas of the mode line which do not have
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mouse bindings of their own. Normally some areas, such as those
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displaying the buffer name and the major mode name, have their own mouse
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bindings. Help on these bindings is echoed when the mouse is positioned
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over them.
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@node Creating Frames
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@section Creating Frames
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@cindex creating frames
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@cindex mode, Scroll Bar
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When using X, Emacs normally makes a @dfn{scroll bar} at the left of
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each Emacs window. The scroll bar runs the height of the window, and
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shows a moving rectangular inner box which represents the portion of the
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buffer currently displayed. The entire height of the scroll bar
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represents the entire length of the buffer.
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each Emacs window.@footnote{Placing it at the left is usually more
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useful with overlapping frames with text starting at the left margin.}
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The scroll bar runs the height of the window, and shows a moving
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rectangular inner box which represents the portion of the buffer
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currently displayed. The entire height of the scroll bar represents the
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entire length of the buffer.
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You can use @kbd{Mouse-2} (normally, the middle button) in the scroll
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bar to move or drag the inner box up and down. If you move it to the
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you click.
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@findex scroll-bar-mode
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@vindex scroll-bar-mode
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You can enable or disable Scroll Bar mode with the command @kbd{M-x
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scroll-bar-mode}. With no argument, it toggles the use of scroll bars.
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With an argument, it turns use of scroll bars on if and only if the
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argument is positive. This command applies to all frames, including
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frames yet to be created. You can use the X resource
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@samp{verticalScrollBars} to control the initial setting of Scroll Bar
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mode. @xref{Resources X}.
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frames yet to be created. Customize the option @code{scroll-bar-mode}
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to control the use of scroll bars at startup. You can use it to specify
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that they are placed at the right of windows if you prefer that. You
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can use the X resource @samp{verticalScrollBars} to control the initial
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setting of Scroll Bar mode similarly. @xref{Resources X}.
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@findex toggle-scroll-bar
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To enable or disable scroll bars for just the selected frame, use the
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@kbd{M-x toggle-scroll-bar} command.
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@node Wheeled Mice
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@section Scrolling With `Wheeled' Mice
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@cindex mouse wheel
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@findex mwheel-install
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Some mice have a `wheel' instead of a third button. You can usually
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click the wheel to act as @kbd{mouse-3}. You can also use the wheel to
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scroll windows instead of using the scroll bar or keyboard commands.
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Use @kbd{M-x mwheel-install} to set up the wheel for scrolling or put
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@samp{(require 'mwheel)} in your @file{.emacs}. (Support for the wheel
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depends on the window system generating appropriate events for Emacs.)
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@vindex mwheel-follow-mouse
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@vindex mwheel-scroll-amount
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The variables @code{mwheel-follow-mouse} and @code{mwheel-scroll-amount}
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determine where and by how much buffers are scrolled.
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@node Menu Bars
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@section Menu Bars
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@cindex Menu Bar mode
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@xref{Menu Bar}, for information on how to invoke commands with the
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menu bar.
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@c Presumably not useful until we make toolbar items.
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@c @node Tool Bars
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@c @section Tool Bars
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@c @cindex Tool Bar mode
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@c @cindex mode, Tool Bar
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@c You can turn display of tool bars on or off with @kbd{M-x
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@c tool-bar-mode}. With no argument, this command toggles Tool Bar mode, a
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@c minor mode. With an argument, the command turns Tool Bar mode on if the
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@c argument is positive, off if the argument is not positive.
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@node Dialog Boxes
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@section Using Dialog Boxes
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@cindex dialog boxes
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@vindex use-dialog-box
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Certain operations invoked from menus will use a window system dialog
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box to get information via the mouse if such dialog boxes are supported.
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This includes yes/no questions and file selection under Motif/LessTif
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and MS Windows. Customize the option @code{use-dialog-box} to suppress
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the use of dialog boxes.
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@node Faces
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@section Using Multiple Typefaces
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@cindex faces
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font, the foreground color, the background color, and whether to
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underline. Emacs on MS-DOS supports faces partially by letting you
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control the foreground and background colors of each face
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(@pxref{MS-DOS}).
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(@pxref{MS-DOS}). On non-windowed terminals faces are supported to the
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extent the terminal can display them.
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The way you control display style is by defining named @dfn{faces}.
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Each face can specify a type font, a foreground color, a background
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@item default
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This face is used for ordinary text that doesn't specify any other face.
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@item modeline
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This face is used for mode lines. By default, it's set up as the
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inverse of the default face. @xref{Display Vars}.
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This face is used for mode lines. By default, it's drawn with shadows
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for a `raised' effect under X and set up as the inverse of the default
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face on non-windowed terminals. @xref{Display Vars}.
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@item header-line
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Similar to @code{modeline} for a window's header line.
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@item highlight
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This face is used for highlighting portions of text, in various modes.
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@item region
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This face uses a bold italic variant of the default font, if it has one.
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@item underline
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This face underlines text.
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@item fixed-pitch
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The basic fixed-pitch face.
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@item fringe
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The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows under X.
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@item scroll-bar
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This face determines the colors of the scroll bar.
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@item border
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This face determines the color of the frame border.
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@item cursor
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This face determines the color of the cursor.
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@item mouse
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This face determines the color of the mouse pointer.
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@item tool-bar
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The basic tool-bar face.
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@item menu
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This face determines the colors and font of Emacs's menus. Setting the
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font of LessTif/Motif menus is currently not supported; attempts to set
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the font are ignored in this case.
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@item trailing-whitespace
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The face for highlighting trailing whitespace when
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@code{show-trailing-whitespace} is non-nil.
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@item variable-pitch
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The basic variable-pitch face.
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@end table
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@cindex @code{region} face
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You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears
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on your screen using the command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}.
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@xref{Postscript}.
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@xref{PostScript}.
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@node Font Lock
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@section Font Lock mode
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@cindex Font Lock mode
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@cindex mode, Font Lock
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@cindex syntax highlighting
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@cindex syntax coloring
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Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular
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buffer, which highlights (or ``fontifies'') using various faces
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@end example
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@findex global-font-lock-mode
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@vindex global-font-lock-mode
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To turn on Font Lock mode automatically in all modes which support it,
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use the function @code{global-font-lock-mode}, like this:
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customize the user option @code{global-font-lock-mode} or use the
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function @code{global-font-lock-mode}, like this:
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@example
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(global-font-lock-mode 1)
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@menu
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* Fast Lock Mode:: Saving font information in files.
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* Lazy Lock Mode:: Fontifying only text that is actually displayed.
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* JIT Lock Mode:: Like Lazy Lock, but generally faster.
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* Fast or Lazy:: Which support mode is best for you?
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@end menu
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@code{lazy-lock-stealth-lines} and @code{lazy-lock-stealth-verbose}
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specify the granularity and verbosity of stealth fontification.
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@node JIT Lock Mode
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@subsection JIT Lock Mode
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@findex jit-lock-mode
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The command @kbd{M-x lazy-lock-mode} turns JIT Lock mode on or off,
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according to the argument (with no argument, it toggles). This support
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mode is roughly equivalent to Lazy Lock but is generally faster. It
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supports stealth and deferred fontification.
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Font-lock uses @code{jit-lock-mode} as default support mode, so you
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don't have to do anything to activate it.
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@node Fast or Lazy
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@subsection Fast Lock or Lazy Lock?
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that uses faces (colors, typically) to indicate which parts of
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the buffer were changed most recently.
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@node Trailing Whitespace
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@section Trailing Whitespace
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@cindex trailing whitespace
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@vindex show-trailing-whitespace
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The option @code{show-trailing-whitespace} can be customized so that
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Emacs displays trailing whitespace in the face
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@code{trailing-whitespace}. Trailing whitespace is defined as spaces or
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tabs at the end of a line. To avoid busy highlighting when entering new
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text, trailing whitespace is not displayed if point is at the end of the
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line containing the whitespace.
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@node Tooltips
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@section Tooltips (or `Ballon Help')
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@cindex balloon help
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@findex tooltip-mode
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Tooltips are small X windows displaying a help string at the current
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mouse position, typically over text which can be activated with the
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mouse or other keys. (This facility is sometimes known as `balloon
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help'.) To use them customize the user option. @code{tooltip-mode}.
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The customization group @code{tooltip} controls various aspects of their
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display.
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@node Misc X
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@section Miscellaneous X Window Features
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according to its name. The name you specify appears in the mode line
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when the frame is selected.
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@node XTerm Mouse
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@section Using a Mouse in Terminal Emulators
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Some terminal emulators under X support mouse clicks in the terminal
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window. In a terminal emulator which is compatible with @code{xterm},
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you can use @kbd{M-x xterm-mouse-mode} to enable simple use of the
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mouse---only single clicks are supported. The normal @code{xterm} mouse
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functionality is still available by holding down the @kbd{SHIFT} key
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when you press the mouse button.
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