52 SXEmacs Display

This chapter describes a number of other features related to the display that SXEmacs presents to the user.

• Refresh Screen: Clearing the screen and redrawing everything on it.
• Truncation: Folding or wrapping long text lines.
• The Echo Area: Where messages are displayed.
• Warnings: Display of Warnings.
• Invisible Text: Hiding part of the buffer text.
• Selective Display: Hiding part of the buffer text (the old way).
• Overlay Arrow: Display of an arrow to indicate position.
• Temporary Displays: Displays that go away automatically.
• Blinking: How SXEmacs shows the matching open parenthesis.
• Usual Display: The usual conventions for displaying nonprinting chars.
• Display Tables: How to specify other conventions.
• Beeping: Audible signal to the user.