@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001,
-@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
@node Display, Search, Registers, Top
@chapter Controlling the Display
To turn off Follow mode, type @kbd{M-x follow-mode} a second time.
@node Faces
-@section Using Multiple Typefaces
+@section Faces: Controlling Text Display Style
@cindex faces
You can specify various styles for displaying text using
support colors. Text-only terminals generally do not support changing
the height and width or the font family.
- Emacs uses faces automatically for highlighting, through the work of
-Font Lock mode. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about Font
-Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. You can print out the buffer
-with the highlighting that appears on your screen using the command
-@code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. @xref{PostScript}.
+ Most major modes assign faces to the text automatically through the
+work of Font Lock mode. @xref{Font Lock}, for more information about
+Font Lock mode and syntactic highlighting. You can print the current
+buffer with the highlighting that appears on your screen using the
+command @code{ps-print-buffer-with-faces}. @xref{PostScript}.
You control the appearance of a part of the text in the buffer by
specifying the face or faces to use for it. The style of display used
@cindex cursor in non-selected windows
@vindex cursor-in-non-selected-windows
- Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows in the ``off''
-state, with the same appearance as when the blinking cursor blinks
+ Normally, the cursor appears in non-selected windows without
+blinking, with the same appearance as when the blinking cursor blinks
``off.'' For a box cursor, this is a hollow box; for a bar cursor,
this is a thinner bar. To turn off cursors in non-selected windows,
-customize the variable @code{cursor-in-non-selected-windows} and assign
-it a @code{nil} value.
+customize the variable @code{cursor-in-non-selected-windows} and
+assign it a @code{nil} value.
@vindex x-stretch-cursor
@cindex wide block cursor