\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @comment %**start of header @setfilename ../../info/emacs-xtra.info @settitle Specialized Emacs Features @c Merge all functions, variables, and keys into the concept index. @syncodeindex fn cp @syncodeindex vr cp @syncodeindex ky cp @comment %**end of header @copying This manual describes specialized features of Emacs. Copyright @copyright{} 2004--2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @quotation Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU manual.'' @end quotation @end copying @documentencoding UTF-8 @dircategory Emacs @direntry * Emacs-Xtra: (emacs-xtra). Specialized Emacs features. @end direntry @titlepage @title Specialized Emacs Features @page @vskip 0pt plus 1filll @insertcopying @end titlepage @contents @ifnottex @node Top @top Specialized Emacs Features @insertcopying @end ifnottex @menu * Introduction:: What documentation belongs here? @iftex * Picture Mode:: Editing pictures made up of characters using the quarter-plane screen model. * Autorevert:: Auto Reverting non-file buffers. * Subdir Switches:: Subdirectory switches in Dired. * Advanced Calendar/Diary Usage:: Advanced Calendar/Diary customization. * Emerge:: A convenient way of merging two versions of a program. * Advanced VC Usage:: Advanced VC (version control) features. * Fortran:: Fortran mode and its special features. * MS-DOS:: Using Emacs on MS-DOS. @end iftex * GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation. * Index:: @end menu @node Introduction @unnumbered Introduction This manual contains detailed information about various features that are too specialized to be included in the printed Emacs manual. It is intended to be readable by anyone having a basic knowledge of Emacs. However, certain sections may be intended for a more specialized audience, such as Elisp authors. This should be clearly pointed out at the beginning of these sections. @c Note to authors - you need to be careful about cross-references to @c topics in the Emacs manual. As a printed document, the xtra files @c are separate from the Emacs manual; but as an info document, they @c are part of the Emacs manual. Hence you need to use something like: @c @iftex @c @ref{Comparing Files,,, emacs, the Emacs Manual}, @c @end iftex @c @ifnottex @c @ref{Comparing Files}, @c @end ifnottex Certain packages (or collections of related features) have their own manuals, separate from the main Emacs manual. This manual is intended as a complement, rather than an alternative, to reading those additional manuals. In a nutshell, it is a collection of smaller specialized features (or extra detail about standard features), too small or too obscure to justify their own manual, or inclusion in the printed Emacs manual. The chapters in this manual are, however, included (at the relevant places) in the main Emacs manual when it is formatted as an Info document. Sections intended specifically for Elisp programmers can follow the style of the Elisp manual. Other sections should follow the style of the Emacs manual. @iftex @raisesections @include picture-xtra.texi @include arevert-xtra.texi @include dired-xtra.texi @include cal-xtra.texi @include emerge-xtra.texi @include vc-xtra.texi @include fortran-xtra.texi @include msdog-xtra.texi @lowersections @end iftex @node GNU Free Documentation License @appendix GNU Free Documentation License @include doclicense.texi @node Index @unnumbered Index @printindex cp @bye