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This chapter describes a number of features related to the display that Emacs presents to the user.
| • Refresh Screen: | Clearing the screen and redrawing everything on it. | |
| • Forcing Redisplay: | Forcing redisplay. | |
| • Truncation: | Folding or wrapping long text lines. | |
| • The Echo Area: | Displaying messages at the bottom of the screen. | |
| • Warnings: | Displaying warning messages for the user. | |
| • Invisible Text: | Hiding part of the buffer text. | |
| • Selective Display: | Hiding part of the buffer text (the old way). | |
| • Temporary Displays: | Displays that go away automatically. | |
| • Overlays: | Use overlays to highlight parts of the buffer. | |
| • Size of Displayed Text: | How large displayed text is. | |
| • Line Height: | Controlling the height of lines. | |
| • Faces: | A face defines a graphics style for text characters: font, colors, etc. | |
| • Fringes: | Controlling window fringes. | |
| • Scroll Bars: | Controlling vertical scroll bars. | |
| • Window Dividers: | Separating windows visually. | |
| • Display Property: | Enabling special display features. | |
| • Images: | Displaying images in Emacs buffers. | |
| • Buttons: | Adding clickable buttons to Emacs buffers. | |
| • Abstract Display: | Emacs’s Widget for Object Collections. | |
| • Blinking: | How Emacs shows the matching open parenthesis. | |
| • Character Display: | How Emacs displays individual characters. | |
| • Beeping: | Audible signal to the user. | |
| • Window Systems: | Which window system is being used. | |
| • Bidirectional Display: | Display of bidirectional scripts, such as Arabic and Farsi. |
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