28 Windows

This chapter describes the functions and variables related to Emacs windows. See Frames, for how windows are assigned an area of screen available for Emacs to use. See Display, for information on how text is displayed in windows.

• Basic Windows		Basic information on using windows.
• Windows and Frames		Relating windows to the frame they appear on.
• Window Sizes		Accessing a window’s size.
• Resizing Windows		Changing the sizes of windows.
• Preserving Window Sizes		Preserving the size of windows.
• Splitting Windows		Creating a new window.
• Deleting Windows		Removing a window from its frame.
• Recombining Windows		Preserving the frame layout when splitting and deleting windows.
• Selecting Windows		The selected window is the one that you edit in.
• Cyclic Window Ordering		Moving around the existing windows.
• Buffers and Windows		Each window displays the contents of a buffer.
• Switching Buffers		Higher-level functions for switching to a buffer.
• Displaying Buffers		Displaying a buffer in a suitable window.
• Window History		Each window remembers the buffers displayed in it.
• Dedicated Windows		How to avoid displaying another buffer in a specific window.
• Quitting Windows		How to restore the state prior to displaying a buffer.
• Side Windows		Special windows on a frame’s sides.
• Atomic Windows		Preserving parts of the window layout.
• Window Point		Each window has its own location of point.
• Window Start and End		Buffer positions indicating which text is on-screen in a window.
• Textual Scrolling		Moving text up and down through the window.
• Vertical Scrolling		Moving the contents up and down on the window.
• Horizontal Scrolling		Moving the contents sideways on the window.
• Coordinates and Windows		Converting coordinates to windows.
• Mouse Window Auto-selection		Automatically selecting windows with the mouse.
• Window Configurations		Saving and restoring the state of the screen.
• Window Parameters		Associating additional information with windows.
• Window Hooks		Hooks for scrolling, window size changes, redisplay going past a certain point, or window configuration changes.