screenfuls. It provides commands for scrolling through the buffer
conveniently but not for changing it. Apart from the usual Emacs
cursor motion commands, you can type @key{SPC} to scroll forward one
-windowful, @key{S-SPC} or @key{DEL} to scroll backward, and @kbd{s} to
+windowful, @key{S-@key{SPC}} or @key{DEL} to scroll backward, and @kbd{s} to
start an incremental search.
@kindex q @r{(View mode)}
following the buffer percentage like this:
@example
-@var{POS} of @var{SIZE}
+@var{pos} of @var{size}
@end example
@noindent
-Here @var{SIZE} is the human readable representation of the number of
+Here @var{size} is the human readable representation of the number of
characters in the buffer, which means that @samp{k} for 10^3, @samp{M}
for 10^6, @samp{G} for 10^9, etc., are used to abbreviate.
@vindex blink-cursor-mode
@vindex blink-cursor-blinks
@vindex blink-cursor-alist
- By default, the cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks. This can be
-changed by customizing the variable @code{blink-cursor-blinks}. To
-disable cursor blinking altogether, change the variable
-@code{blink-cursor-mode} to @code{nil} (@pxref{Easy Customization}),
-or add the line @code{(blink-cursor-mode 0)} to your init file.
-Alternatively, you can change how the cursor looks when it ``blinks
-off'' by customizing the list variable @code{blink-cursor-alist}.
-Each element in the list should have the form @code{(@var{on-type}
-. @var{off-type})}; this means that if the cursor is displayed as
-@var{on-type} when it blinks on (where @var{on-type} is one of the
-cursor types described above), then it is displayed as @var{off-type}
-when it blinks off.
+ By default, the cursor stops blinking after 10 blinks, if Emacs does
+not get any input during that time; any input event restarts the
+count. You can customize the variable @code{blink-cursor-blinks} to
+control that: its value says how many times to blink without input
+before stopping. Setting that variable to a zero or negative value
+will make the cursor blink forever. To disable cursor blinking
+altogether, change the variable @code{blink-cursor-mode} to @code{nil}
+(@pxref{Easy Customization}), or add the line
+
+@lisp
+ (blink-cursor-mode 0)
+@end lisp
+
+@noindent
+to your init file. Alternatively, you can change how the cursor
+looks when it ``blinks off'' by customizing the list variable
+@code{blink-cursor-alist}. Each element in the list should have the
+form @code{(@var{on-type} . @var{off-type})}; this means that if the
+cursor is displayed as @var{on-type} when it blinks on (where
+@var{on-type} is one of the cursor types described above), then it is
+displayed as @var{off-type} when it blinks off.
@vindex x-stretch-cursor
@cindex wide block cursor