-This is Info file ../../info/xemacs.info, produced by Makeinfo version
-1.68 from the input file xemacs.texi.
+This is ../info/xemacs.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0b from
+xemacs/xemacs.texi.
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-File: xemacs.info, Node: Mode Line, Next: XEmacs under X, Prev: Echo Area, Up: Frame
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Mode Line, Next: GUI Components, Prev: Echo Area, Up: Frame
The Mode Line
=============
appropriately.
\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: XEmacs under X, Prev: Mode Line, Up: Frame
+File: xemacs.info, Node: GUI Components, Next: XEmacs under X, Prev: Mode Line, Up: Frame
+
+GUI Components
+==============
+
+ When executed in a graphical windowing environment such as the X
+Window System or Microsoft Windows, XEmacs displays several graphical
+user interface components such as scrollbars, menubars, toolbars, and
+gutters. By default there is a vertical scrollbar at the right of each
+frame, and at the top of the frame there is a menubar, a toolbar, and a
+gutter, in that order. Gutters can contain any of several widgets, but
+the default configuration puts a set of "notebook tabs" which you can
+use as a shortcut for selecting any of several related buffers in a
+given frame. Operating the GUI components is "obvious": click on the
+menubar to pull down a menu, on a button in the toolbar to invoke a
+function, and on a tab in the gutter to switch buffers.
+
+* Menu:
+
+* Menubar Basics:: How XEmacs uses the menubar.
+* Scrollbar Basics:: How XEmacs uses scrollbars.
+* Mode Line Basics:: How XEmacs uses modelines.
+* Toolbar Basics:: How XEmacs uses toolbars.
+* Gutter Basics:: How XEmacs uses gutters.
+* Inhibiting:: What if you don't like GUI?
+* Customizing:: Position, orientation, and appearance of GUI objects.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Menubar Basics, Next: Scrollbar Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+The XEmacs Menubar
+==================
+
+ The XEmacs menubar is intended to be conformant to the usual
+conventions for menubars, although conformance is not yet perfect. The
+menu at the extreme right is the `Help' menu, which should always be
+available. It provides access to all the XEmacs help facilities
+available through `C-h', as well as samples of various configuration
+files like `~/.Xdefaults' and `~/.emacs'. At the extreme left is the
+`Files' menu, which provides the usual file reading, writing, and
+printing operations, as well as operations like revert buffer from most
+recent save. The next menu from the left is the `Edit' menu, which
+provides the `Undo' operation as well as cutting and pasting,
+searching, and keyboard macro definition and execution.
+
+ XEmacs provides a very dynamic environment, and the Lisp language
+makes for highly flexible applications. The menubar reflects this:
+many menus (eg, the `Buffers' menu, *note Buffers Menu::) contain items
+determined by the current state of XEmacs, and most major modes and many
+minor modes add items to menus and even whole menus to the menubar. In
+fact, some applications like w3.el and VM provide so many menus that
+they define a whole new menubar and add a button that allows convenient
+switching between the "XEmacs menubar" and the "application menubar".
+Such applications normally bind themselves to a particular frame, and
+this switching only takes place on frames where such an application is
+active (ie, the current window of the frame is displaying a buffer in
+the appropriate major mode).
+
+ Other menus which are typically available are the `Options',
+`Tools', `Buffers', `Apps', and `Mule' menus. For detailed
+descriptions of these menus, *Note Pull-down Menus::. (In 21.2
+XEmacsen, the `Mule' menu will be moved under `Options'.)
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Scrollbar Basics, Next: Mode Line Basics, Prev: Menubar Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+XEmacs Scrollbars
+=================
+
+ XEmacs scrollbars provide the usual interface. Arrow buttons at
+either end allow for line by line scrolling, including autorepeat.
+Clicking in the scrollbar itself provides scrolling by windowsfull,
+depending on which side of the slider is clicked. The slider itself
+may be dragged for smooth scrolling.
+
+ The position of the slider corresponds to the position of the window
+in the buffer. In particular, the length of the slider is proportional
+to the fraction of the buffer which appears in the window.
+
+ The presence of the scrollbars is under control of the application or
+may be customized by the user. By default a vertical scrollbar is
+present in all windows (except the minibuffer), and there is no
+horizontal scrollbar.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Mode Line Basics, Next: Toolbar Basics, Prev: Scrollbar Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+XEmacs Mode Lines
+=================
+
+ When used in a windowing system, the XEmacs modelines can be dragged
+vertically. The effect is to resize the windows above and below the
+modeline (this includes the minibuffer window).
+
+ Additionally, a modeline can be dragged horizontally, in which case
+it scrolls its own text. This behavior is not enabled by default
+because it could be considered as disturbing when dragging vertically.
+When this behavior is enabled, the modeline's text can be dragged
+either in the same direction as the mouse, or in the opposite sense,
+making the modeline act as a scrollbar for its own text.
+
+ You can select the behavior you want from the `Display' submenu of
+the `Options' menu.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Toolbar Basics, Next: Gutter Basics, Prev: Mode Line Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+XEmacs Toolbars
+===============
+
+ XEmacs has a default toolbar which provides shortcuts for some of the
+commonly used operations (such as opening files) and applications (such
+as the Info manual reader). Operations which require arguments will pop
+up dialogs to get them.
+
+ The position of the default toolbar can be customized. Also, several
+toolbars may be present simultaneously (in different positions). VM,
+for example, provides an application toolbar which shortcuts for
+mail-specific operations like sending, saving, and deleting messages.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Gutter Basics, Next: Inhibiting, Prev: Toolbar Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+XEmacs Gutters
+==============
+
+ Gutters are the most flexible of the GUI components described in this
+section. In theory, the other GUI components could be implemented by
+customizing a gutter, but in practice the other components were
+introduced earlier and have their own special implementations. Gutters
+tend to be more transient than the other components. Buffer tabs, for
+example, change every time the selected buffer in the frame changes.
+And for progress gauges a gutter to contain the gauge is typically
+created on the fly when needed, then destroyed when the operation whose
+staus is being displayed is completed.
+
+ Buffer tabs, having somewhat complex behavior, deserve a closer look.
+By default, a row of buffer tabs is displayed at the top of every frame.
+(The tabs could be placed in the bottom gutter, but would be oriented
+the same way and look rather odd. The horizontal orientation makes
+putting them in a side gutter utterly impractical.) The buffer
+displayed in the current window of a frame can be changed to a specific
+buffer by clicking [mouse-1] on the corresponding tab in the gutter.
+
+ Each tab contains the name of its buffer. The tab for the current
+buffer in each frame is displayed in raised relief. The list of buffers
+chosen for display in the buffer tab row is derived by filtering the
+buffer list (like the `Buffers' menu). The list starts out with all
+existing buffers, with more recently selected buffers coming earlier in
+the list.
+
+ Then "uninteresting" buffers, like internal XEmacs buffers, the
+`*Message Log*' buffer, and so on are deleted from the list. Next, the
+frame's selected buffer is determined. Buffers with a different major
+mode from the selected buffer are removed from the list. Finally, if
+the list is too long, the least recently used buffers are deleted from
+the list. By default up to 6 most recently used buffers with the same
+mode are displayed on tabs in the gutter.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Inhibiting, Next: Customizing, Prev: Gutter Basics, Up: GUI Components
+
+Inhibiting Display of GUI Components
+====================================
+
+ Use of GUI facilities is a personal thing. Almost everyone agrees
+that drawing via keyboard-based "turtle graphics" is acceptable to
+hardly anyone if a mouse is available, but conversely emulating a
+keyboard with a screenful of buttons is a painful experience. But
+between those extremes the complete novice will require a fair amount
+of time before toolbars and menus become dispensable, but many an
+"Ancien Haquer" sees them as a complete waste of precious frame space
+that could be filled with text.
+
+ Display of all of the GUI components created by XEmacs can be
+inhibited through the use of Customize. Customize can be accessed
+through `Options | Customize' in the menu bar, or via `M-x customize'.
+Then navigate through the Customize tree to `Emacs | Environment'.
+Scrollbar and toolbar visibility is controlled via the `Display' group,
+options `Scrollbars visible' and `Toolbar visible' respectively.
+Gutter visibility is controlled by group `Gutter', option `Visible'.
+
+ Or they can be controlled directly by `M-x customize-variable', by
+changing the values of the variables `menubar-visible-p',
+`scrollbars-visible-p', `toolbar-visible-p', or
+`gutter-buffers-tab-visible-p' respectively. (The strange form of the
+last variable is due to the fact that gutters are often used to display
+transient widgets like progress gauges, which you probably don't want
+to inhibit. It is more likely that you want to inhibit the default
+display of the buffers tab widget, which is what that variable controls.
+This interface is subject to change depending on developer experience
+and user feedback.)
+
+ Control of frame configuration can controlled automatically
+according to various parameters such as buffer or frame because these
+are "specifiers" *Note Specifiers: (lispref)Specifiers. Using these
+features requires programming in Lisp; Customize is not yet that
+sophisticated. Also, components that appear in various positions and
+orientations can have display suppressed according to position. `C-h a
+visible-p' gives a list of variables which can be customized. E.g., to
+control the visibility of specifically the left-side toolbar only,
+customize `left-toolbar-visible-p'.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: Customizing, Prev: Inhibiting, Up: GUI Components
+
+Changing the Position, Orientation, and Appearance of GUI Components
+====================================================================
+
+ #### Not documented yet.
+
+\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: XEmacs under X, Next: XEmacs under MS Windows, Prev: GUI Components, Up: Frame
Using XEmacs Under the X Window System
======================================
When you are working under X, each X window (that is, each XEmacs
frame) has a menu bar for mouse-controlled operations (*note Pull-down
-Menus::.).
+Menus::).
XEmacs under X is also a multi-frame XEmacs. You can use the New
Frame menu item from the File menu to create a new XEmacs frame in a
things, and the title is simply what appears above the window.)
\1f
+File: xemacs.info, Node: XEmacs under MS Windows, Prev: XEmacs under X, Up: Frame
+
+Using XEmacs Under Microsoft Windows
+====================================
+
+ Use of XEmacs under MS Windows is not separately documented here, but
+most operations available under the X Window System are also available
+with MS Windows.
+
+ Where possible, native MS Windows GUI components and capabilities are
+used in XEmacs.
+
+\1f
File: xemacs.info, Node: Keystrokes, Next: Pull-down Menus, Prev: Frame, Up: Top
Keystrokes, Key Sequences, and Key Bindings
Emacs represents a key sequence as a vector of keystrokes. Thus, the
schematic representation of a complete key sequence is as follows:
- [(modifier .. modifer keysym) ... (modifier .. modifier keysym)]
+ [(modifier .. modifier keysym) ... (modifier .. modifier keysym)]
Here are some examples of complete key sequences:
Create a file called `~/.xmodmap'. In this file, place the lines
- remove Lock = Caps_Lock
- keysym Caps_Lock = Super_L
- add Mod2 = Super_L
+ remove Lock = Caps_Lock
+ keysym Caps_Lock = Super_L
+ add Mod2 = Super_L
The first line says that the key that is currently called `Caps_Lock'
should no longer behave as a "lock" key. The second line says that
equivalent command. Most commands on the Edit menu work on a block of
text, the X selection. They appear faded until you select a block of
text (activate a region) with the mouse. *Note Using X Selections::,
-*note Killing::., and *note Yanking::. for more information.
+*note Killing::, and *note Yanking:: for more information.
Undo
Undoes the previous command. Undo is equivalent to the Emacs
For some of the menu items, there are sub-menus which you will need to
select.
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Options Menu, Next: Buffers Menu, Prev: Apps Menu, Up: Pull-down Menus
-
-The Options Menu
-----------------
-
- The Options pull-down menu contains the Read Only, Case Sensitive
-Search, Overstrike, Auto Delete Selection, Teach Extended Commands,
-Syntax Highlighting, Paren Highlighting, Font, Size, Weight, Buffers
-Menu Length..., Buffers Sub-Menus and Save Options menu items. When
-you select a menu item, Emacs executes the equivalent command. For
-some of the menu items, there are sub-menus which you will need to
-select.
-
-Read Only
- Selecting this item will cause the buffer to visit the file in a
- read-only mode. Changes to the file will not be allowed. This is
- equivalent to the Emacs command `toggle-read-only' (`C-x C-q').
-
-Case Sensitive Search
- Selecting this item will cause searches to be case-sensitive. If
- its not selected then searches will ignore case. This option is
- local to the buffer.
-
-Overstrike
- After selecting this item, when you type letters they will replace
- existing text on a one-to-one basis, rather than pushing it to the
- right. At the end of a line, such characters extend the line.
- Before a tab, such characters insert until the tab is filled in.
- This is the same as Emacs command `quoted-insert' (`C-q').
-
-Auto Delete Selection
- Selecting this item will cause automatic deletion of the selected
- region. The typed text will replace the selection if the selection
- is active (i.e. if its highlighted). If the option is not selected
- then the typed text is just inserted at the point.
-
-Teach Extended Commands
- After you select this item, any time you execute a command with
- `M-x'which has a shorter keybinding, you will be shown the
- alternate binding before the command executes.
-
-Syntax Highlighting
- You can customize your `.emacs' file to include the font-lock mode
- so that when you select this item, the comments will be displayed
- in one face, strings in another, reserved words in another, and so
- on. When Fonts is selected, different parts of the program will
- appear in different Fonts. When Colors is selected, then the
- program will be displayed in different colors. Selecting None
- causes the program to appear in just one Font and Color. Selecting
- Less resets the Fonts and Colors to a fast, minimal set of
- decorations. Selecting More resets the Fonts and Colors to a larger
- set of decorations. For example, if Less is selected (which is the
- default setting) then you might have all comments in green color.
- Whereas, if More is selected then a function name in the comments
- themselves might appear in a different Color or Font.
-
-Paren Highlighting
- After selecting Blink from this item, if you place the cursor on a
- parenthesis, the matching parenthesis will blink. If you select
- Highlight and place the cursor on a parenthesis, the whole
- expression of the parenthesis under the cursor will be highlighted.
- Selecting None will turn off the options (regarding Paren
- Highlighting) which you had selected earlier.
-
-Font
- You can select any Font for your program by choosing from one of
- the available Fonts.
-
-Size
- You can select any size ranging from 2 to 24 by selecting the
- appropriate option.
-
-Weight
- You can choose either Bold or Medium for the weight.
-
-Buffers Menu Length...
- Prompts you for the number of buffers to display. Then it will
- display that number of most recently selected buffers.
-
-Buffers Sub-Menus
- After selection of this item the Buffers menu will contain several
- commands, as submenus of each buffer line. If this item is
- unselected, then there are no submenus for each buffer line, the
- only command available will be selecting that buffer.
-
-Save Options
- Selecting this item will save the current settings of your Options
- menu to your `.emacs' file.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Buffers Menu, Next: Tools Menu, Prev: Options Menu, Up: Pull-down Menus
-
-The Buffers Menu
-----------------
-
- The Buffers menu provides a selection of up to ten buffers and the
-item List All Buffers, which provides a Buffer List. *Note List
-Buffers::, for more information.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Tools Menu, Next: Help Menu, Prev: Buffers Menu, Up: Pull-down Menus
-
-The Tools Menu
---------------
-
- The Tools pull-down menu contains the Grep..., Compile..., Shell
-Command..., Shell Command on Region..., Debug(GDB)... and
-Debug(DBX)... menu items, and the Compare, Merge, Apply Patch and Tags
-sub-menus. When you select a menu item, Emacs executes the equivalent
-command. For some of the menu items, there are sub-menus which you
-will need to select.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Help Menu, Next: Menu Customization, Prev: Tools Menu, Up: Pull-down Menus
-
-The Help Menu
--------------
-
- The Help Menu gives you access to Emacs Info and provides a menu
-equivalent for each of the choices you have when using `C-h'. *Note
-Help::, for more information.
-
- The Help menu also gives access to UNIX online manual pages via the
-UNIX Manual Page option.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Menu Customization, Prev: Help Menu, Up: Pull-down Menus
-
-Customizing XEmacs Menus
-------------------------
-
- You can customize any of the pull-down menus by adding or removing
-menu items and disabling or enabling existing menu items.
-
- The following functions are available:
-`add-menu: (MENU-PATH MENU-NAME MENU-ITEMS &OPTIONAL BEFORE)'
- Add a menu to the menu bar or one of its submenus.
-
-`add-menu-item: (MENU-PATH ITEM-NAME FUNCTION ENABLED-P
- &optional before)' Add a menu item to a menu, creating the menu
- first if necessary.
-
-`delete-menu-item: (PATH)'
- Remove the menu item defined by PATH from the menu hierarchy.
-
-`disable-menu-item: (PATH)'
- Disable the specified menu item.
-
-`enable-menu-item: (PATH)'
- Enable the specified previously disabled menu item.
-
-`relabel-menu-item: (PATH NEW-NAME)'
- Change the string of the menu item specified by PATH to NEW-NAME.
-
- Use the function `add-menu' to add a new menu or submenu. If a menu
-or submenu of the given name exists already, it is changed.
-
- MENU-PATH identifies the menu under which the new menu should be
-inserted. It is a list of strings; for example, `("File")' names the
-top-level File menu. `("File" "Foo")' names a hypothetical submenu of
-File. If MENU-PATH is `nil', the menu is added to the menu bar itself.
-
- MENU-NAME is the string naming the menu to be added.
-
- MENU-ITEMS is a list of menu item descriptions. Each menu item
-should be a vector of three elements:
-
- * A string, which is the name of the menu item
-
- * A symbol naming a command, or a form to evaluate
-
- * `t' or `nil' to indicate whether the item is selectable
-
- The optional argument BEFORE is the name of the menu before which
-the new menu or submenu should be added. If the menu is already
-present, it is not moved.
-
- The function `add-menu-item' adds a menu item to the specified menu,
-creating the menu first if necessary. If the named item already
-exists, the menu remains unchanged.
-
- MENU-PATH identifies the menu into which the new menu item should be
-inserted. It is a list of strings; for example, `("File")' names the
-top-level File menu. `("File" "Foo")' names a hypothetical submenu of
-File.
-
- ITEM-NAME is the string naming the menu item to add.
-
- FUNCTION is the command to invoke when this menu item is selected.
-If it is a symbol, it is invoked with `call-interactively', in the same
-way that functions bound to keys are invoked. If it is a list, the
-list is simply evaluated.
-
- ENABLED-P controls whether the item is selectable or not. It should
-be `t', `nil', or a form to evaluate to decide. This form will be
-evaluated just before the menu is displayed, and the menu item will be
-selectable if that form returns non-`nil'.
-
- For example, to make the `rename-file' command available from the
-File menu, use the following code:
-
- (add-menu-item '("File") "Rename File" 'rename-file t)
-
- To add a submenu of file management commands using a File Management
-item, use the following code:
-
- (add-menu-item '("File" "File Management") "Copy File" 'copy-file t)
- (add-menu-item '("File" "File Management") "Delete File" 'delete-file t)
- (add-menu-item '("File" "File Management") "Rename File" 'rename-file t)
-
- The optional BEFORE argument is the name of a menu item before which
-the new item should be added. If the item is already present, it is
-not moved.
-
- To remove a specified menu item from the menu hierarchy, use
-`delete-menu-item'.
-
- PATH is a list of strings that identify the position of the menu
-item in the menu hierarchy. `("File" "Save")' means the menu item
-called Save under the top level File menu. `("Menu" "Foo" "Item")'
-means the menu item called Item under the Foo submenu of Menu.
-
- To disable a menu item, use `disable-menu-item'. The disabled menu
-item is grayed and can no longer be selected. To make the item
-selectable again, use `enable-menu-item'. `disable-menu-item' and
-`enable-menu-item' both have the argument PATH.
-
- To change the string of the specified menu item, use
-`relabel-menu-item'. This function also takes the argument PATH.
-
- NEW-NAME is the string to which the menu item will be changed.
-
-\1f
-File: xemacs.info, Node: Entering Emacs, Next: Exiting, Prev: Pull-down Menus, Up: Top
-
-Entering and Exiting Emacs
-**************************
-
- The usual way to invoke Emacs is to type `emacs <RET>' at the shell
-(for XEmacs, type `xemacs <RET>'). Emacs clears the screen and then
-displays an initial advisory message and copyright notice. You can
-begin typing Emacs commands immediately afterward.
-
- Some operating systems insist on discarding all type-ahead when Emacs
-starts up; they give Emacs no way to prevent this. Therefore, it is
-wise to wait until Emacs clears the screen before typing the first
-editing command.
-
- Before Emacs reads the first command, you have not had a chance to
-give a command to specify a file to edit. Since Emacs must always have
-a current buffer for editing, it presents a buffer, by default, a
-buffer named `*scratch*'. The buffer is in Lisp Interaction mode; you
-can use it to type Lisp expressions and evaluate them, or you can
-ignore that capability and simply doodle. You can specify a different
-major mode for this buffer by setting the variable `initial-major-mode'
-in your init file. *Note Init File::.
-
- It is possible to give Emacs arguments in the shell command line to
-specify files to visit, Lisp files to load, and functions to call.
-
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