* Tips:: Advice and coding conventions for Emacs Lisp.
* GNU Emacs Internals:: Building and dumping Emacs;
internal data structures.
-* Standard Errors:: List of all error symbols.
-* Standard Buffer-Local Variables::
- List of variables buffer-local in all buffers.
-* Standard Keymaps:: List of standard keymaps.
-* Standard Hooks:: List of standard hook variables.
+* Standard Errors:: List of some standard error symbols.
+* Standard Keymaps:: List of some standard keymaps.
+* Standard Hooks:: List of some standard hook variables.
* Index:: Index including concepts, functions, variables,
and other terms.
Debugging Lisp Programs
-* Debugger:: How the Emacs Lisp debugger is implemented.
+* Debugger:: A debugger for the Emacs Lisp evaluator.
* Edebug:: A source-level Emacs Lisp debugger.
* Syntax Errors:: How to find syntax errors.
* Test Coverage:: Ensuring you have tested all branches in your code.
-* Compilation Errors:: How to find errors that show up in
- byte compilation.
The Lisp Debugger
shell commands.
* Completion Styles:: Specifying rules for performing completion.
* Programmed Completion:: Writing your own completion-function.
+* Completion in Buffers:: Completing text in ordinary buffers.
Command Loop
* Mode Line Format:: Customizing the text that appears in the mode line.
* Imenu:: Providing a menu of definitions made in a buffer.
* Font Lock Mode:: How modes can highlight text according to syntax.
+* Auto-Indentation:: How to teach Emacs to indent for a major mode.
* Desktop Save Mode:: How modes can have buffer state saved between
Emacs sessions.
* Derived Modes:: Defining a new major mode based on another major
mode.
* Basic Major Modes:: Modes that other modes are often derived from.
+* Mode Hooks:: Hooks run at the end of major mode commands.
+* Tabulated List Mode:: Parent mode for buffers containing tabulated data.
* Generic Modes:: Defining a simple major mode that supports
comment syntax and Font Lock mode.
-* Mode Hooks:: Hooks run at the end of major mode commands.
* Example Major Modes:: Text mode and Lisp modes.
Minor Modes
contents can also specify how to fontify it.
* Faces for Font Lock:: Special faces specifically for Font Lock.
* Syntactic Font Lock:: Fontification based on syntax tables.
-* Setting Syntax Properties:: Defining character syntax based on context
- using the Font Lock mechanism.
* Multiline Font Lock:: How to coerce Font Lock into properly
highlighting multiline constructs.
Documentation
-* Documentation Basics:: Good style for doc strings.
- Where to put them. How Emacs stores them.
+* Documentation Basics:: Where doc strings are defined and stored.
* Accessing Documentation:: How Lisp programs can access doc strings.
* Keys in Documentation:: Substituting current key bindings.
* Describing Characters:: Making printable descriptions of
* File Locks:: Locking and unlocking files, to prevent
simultaneous editing by two people.
* Information about Files:: Testing existence, accessibility, size of files.
-* Changing Files:: Renaming files, changing protection, etc.
+* Changing Files:: Renaming files, changing permissions, etc.
* File Names:: Decomposing and expanding file names.
* Contents of Directories:: Getting a list of the files in a directory.
* Create/Delete Dirs:: Creating and Deleting Directories.
-* Magic File Names:: Defining "magic" special handling
- for certain file names.
+* Magic File Names:: Special handling for certain file names.
* Format Conversion:: Conversion to and from various file formats.
Visiting Files
is visited.
* Buffer Modification:: A buffer is @dfn{modified} if it needs to be saved.
* Modification Time:: Determining whether the visited file was changed
- ``behind Emacs's back''.
+ "behind Emacs's back".
* Read Only Buffers:: Modifying text is not allowed in a
read-only buffer.
* The Buffer List:: How to look at all the existing buffers.
* Display Property:: Enabling special display features.
* Images:: Displaying images in Emacs buffers.
* Buttons:: Adding clickable buttons to Emacs buffers.
-* Abstract Display:: Emacs' Widget for Object Collections.
+* Abstract Display:: Emacs's Widget for Object Collections.
* Blinking:: How Emacs shows the matching open parenthesis.
* Usual Display:: The usual conventions for displaying
nonprinting chars.
@include tips.texi
@include internals.texi
@include errors.texi
-@include locals.texi
@include maps.texi
@include hooks.texi
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