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42 Emacs Display

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

• Refreshing the Screen
• Forcing Redisplay
• Truncation
• The Echo Area
• Reporting Warnings
• Invisible Text
• Selective Display
• Temporary Displays
• Overlays
• Size of Displayed Text
• Line Height
• Faces
• Fringes
• Scroll Bars
• Window Dividers
• The display Property
• Images
• Icons
• Embedded Native Widgets
• Buttons
• Abstract Display
• Blinking Parentheses
• Character Display
• Beeping
• Window Systems
• Tooltips
• Bidirectional Display