Since only part of a large buffer fits in the window, Emacs has to show only a part of it. This chapter describes commands and variables that let you specify which part of the text you want to see, and how the text is displayed.
| • Scrolling: | Commands to move text up and down in a window. | |
| • Recentering: | A scroll command that centers the current line. | |
| • Auto Scrolling: | Redisplay scrolls text automatically when needed. | |
| • Horizontal Scrolling: | Moving text left and right in a window. | |
| • Narrowing: | Restricting display and editing to a portion of the buffer. | |
| • View Mode: | Viewing read-only buffers. | |
| • Follow Mode: | Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one. | |
| • Faces: | How to change the display style using faces. | |
| • Colors: | Specifying colors for faces. | |
| • Standard Faces: | The main predefined faces. | |
| • Text Scale: | Increasing or decreasing text size in a buffer. | |
| • Font Lock: | Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces. | |
| • Highlight Interactively: | Tell Emacs what text to highlight. | |
| • Fringes: | Enabling or disabling window fringes. | |
| • Displaying Boundaries: | Displaying top and bottom of the buffer. | |
| • Useless Whitespace: | Showing possibly spurious trailing whitespace. | |
| • Selective Display: | Hiding lines with lots of indentation. | |
| • Optional Mode Line: | Optional mode line display features. | |
| • Text Display: | How text characters are normally displayed. | |
| • Cursor Display: | Features for displaying the cursor. | |
| • Line Truncation: | Truncating lines to fit the screen width instead of continuing them to multiple screen lines. | |
| • Visual Line Mode: | Word wrap and screen line-based editing. | |
| • Display Custom: | Information on variables for customizing display. |