14 Controlling the Display

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.