* 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.
* 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.
* Window System Selections::Transferring text to and from other X clients.
* Drag and Drop:: Internals of Drag-and-Drop implementation.
* Color Names:: Getting the definitions of color names.
-* Text Terminal Colors:: Defining colors for text-only terminals.
+* Text Terminal Colors:: Defining colors for text terminals.
* Resources:: Getting resource values from the server.
* Display Feature Testing:: Determining the features of a terminal.
Abbrevs and Abbrev Expansion
-* Abbrev Mode:: Setting up Emacs for abbreviation.
* Abbrev Tables:: Creating and working with abbrev tables.
* Defining Abbrevs:: Specifying abbreviations and their expansions.
* Abbrev Files:: Saving abbrevs in files.
* 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.
@c include tips.texi
@c include internals.texi
@c include errors.texi
-@c include locals.texi
@c include maps.texi
@c include hooks.texi