18 Controlling the Display

Since only part of a large buffer fits in the window, Emacs tries to show a part that is likely to be interesting. Display-control commands and variables allow you to specify which part of the text you want to see, and how to display it.

• Scrolling: Commands to move text up and down in a window.
• Auto Scrolling: Redisplay scrolls text automatically when needed.
• Horizontal Scrolling: Moving text left and right in a window.
• Follow Mode: Follow mode lets two windows scroll as one.
• Faces: How to change the display style using faces.
• Standard Faces: Emacs' predefined faces.
• Temporary Face Changes: Commands to temporarily modify the default text face
• 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.