* 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 Errors:: List of main error symbols.
* Standard Buffer-Local Variables::
List of variables buffer-local in all buffers.
* Standard Keymaps:: List of standard keymaps.
* Preactivation:: Preactivation is a way of speeding up the
loading of compiled advice.
* Argument Access in Advice:: How advice can access the function's arguments.
-* Advising Primitives:: Accessing arguments when advising a primitive.
* Combined Definition:: How advice is implemented.
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
* Registers:: How registers are implemented. Accessing
the text or position stored in a register.
* Base 64:: Conversion to or from base 64 encoding.
-* MD5 Checksum:: Compute the MD5 "message digest"/"checksum".
+* Checksum/Hash:: Computing "message digests"/"checksums"/"hashes".
* Atomic Changes:: Installing several buffer changes "atomically".
* Change Hooks:: Supplying functions to be run when text is changed.
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