GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

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.