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
- Recentering
- Automatic Scrolling
- Horizontal Scrolling
- Narrowing
- View Mode
- Follow Mode
- Text Faces
- Colors for Faces
- Standard Faces
- Text Scale
- Font Lock mode
- Interactive Highlighting
- Window Fringes
- Displaying Boundaries
- Useless Whitespace
- Selective Display
- Optional Mode Line Features
- How Text Is Displayed
- Displaying the Cursor
- Line Truncation
- Visual Line Mode
- Customization of Display