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Concept Index

• Activation hook-sequence: Standard activation
• Adviced functions: The edit-area
• Analyse: Semantic analyser
• Automatic activation: Automatic activation
• Automatic deactivation: Automatic activation
• BBDB: Conflicts
• bs package: Conflicts
• bs-show: Conflicts
• Bug report: Submitting problem report
• calendar package: Conflicts
• collapsing: Navigation/Selection
• compilation buffers: Temp- and compile-buffers
• Creating new layouts: Creating a new ECB-layout
• cygwin-mount package: Conflicts
• Deactivation hook-sequence: Standard activation
• desktop: Conflicts
• Directories: ECB Directories-buffer
• Download: Downloading new versions
• ECB-layout: The ECB-layout
• ECB-windows: Overview
• edebug: Conflicts
• ediff: Conflicts
• edit-window: The edit-area
• escreen: Window-managers and ECB
• eshell: Using eshell
• expanding: Navigation/Selection
• Faces: Changing faces
• Filter: Filtering the tree-buffers
• func-menu package: Conflicts
• Gnus: Conflicts
• grep buffers: Temp- and compile-buffers
• help buffers: Temp- and compile-buffers
• Hide windows: Hiding the ECB windows
• History: ECB Sources-buffer
• Hooks: List of hooks
• Incremental search: Incremental search
• interactor: Overview
• JDEE: Conflicts
• layout: The ECB-layout
• Methods: ECB Methods-buffer
• minor mode: Standard activation
• mouse button: Using the mouse
• New layouts: Creating a new ECB-layout
• non-semantic-sources: The Methods buffer
• other window: The other window
• POWER-click: Using the mouse
• primary button: Using the mouse
• Problem report: Submitting problem report
• Redraw: Redrawing the ECB-layout
• RETURN key: Navigation/Selection
• scroll-all: Conflicts
• scroll-all-mode: Conflicts
• secondary button: Using the mouse
• semantic tag: Customizing the display
• semantic-sources: The Methods buffer
• SHIFT-click: Using the mouse
• Show windows: Hiding the ECB windows
• Small screen: Small screens
• Sources: ECB Sources-buffer
• special-display: Temp- and compile-buffers
• Speedbar: Simulating speedbar
• TAB key: Navigation/Selection
• tag: Customizing the display
• temporary buffers: Temp- and compile-buffers
• tmm: Using popup-menus
• tree-buffer: Overview
• VC package: Conflicts
• Version control: Conflicts
• VM package: Conflicts
• wb-line-number: Conflicts
• window-manager: Window-managers and ECB
• winner: Conflicts
• winner-mode: Conflicts
• winring: Window-managers and ECB
• xrefactory: Conflicts

Table of Contents

• Installation and first steps of ECB
  • Installation of ECB
    • Installation of ECB for XEmacs users
    • Installation of ECB for GNU Emacs users
  • How to set up Emacs for file parsing with ECB
    • General hints for a correct setup
    • Setting up semantic
    • Setup for file types not supported by semantic
  • First steps after activating ECB first time
• Overview
• How to use this manual
• All interactors of ECB
  • The basic interactors of ECB
    • General introduction into tree-buffers
    • Displaying the trees with different styles
      • Basic knowledge about the styles
      • How to customize the ascii-styles
      • Which images are used for the tree
      • Special images for the Methods-buffer
    • ECB Directories-interactor
      • Usage of the directories interactor
      • Activating/Displaying the directories interactor
      • Customizing the directories interactor
    • ECB Sources- and history-interactor
      • Usage of the sources/history interactor
      • Activating/Displaying the sources/history interactor
      • Customizing the sources/history interactor
    • The ECB Methods interactor
      • Usage of the methods interactor
      • Activating/Displaying the methods interactor
      • Customizing the methods interactor
  • Add-on interactors of ECB
    • Displaying the current semantic context
      • Usage of the analyser-interactor
      • Interactive commands of the analyser-interactor
      • Activating/Displaying the analyser-interactor
      • Customizing the analyser interactor
    • Displaying the definition of the current symbol under point
• Activation and Deactivation
  • Standard activation and deactivation
  • Automatic activation and deactivation
• Usage of ECB
  • Working with the mouse in the ECB-windows
    • The primary mouse-button
    • The POWER- or SHIFT-click
    • The secondary mouse-button
    • The right mouse-button
    • Horizontal scrolling with the mouse
  • Working with the keyboard in the ECB-windows
    • Navigation and Selection in a tree-buffer
    • Incremental search for a node in current tree-buffer
    • Adding personal keybindings for the tree-buffers
    • Using the popup-menu of a tree-buffer from keyboard.
  • Working with the edit-window(s) of the edit-area
    • Documentation of the adviced window functions
  • Temp- and compile-buffers display in ECB
    • Standard Emacs behavior
    • Using a persistent compile window
    • What to do if there are problems with the compile-window
    • Handling special-display-buffers
  • How the "other window" is determined by ECB
    • "Other window"-basics in ECB
    • Builtin "other window" behaviors of ECB
    • User-defined "other window" behavior
  • Using and customizing the ECB-Methods buffer
    • Possible actions after visiting a tag
    • Explicit and automatic expanding of the ECB-methods-buffer
      • Explicit expanding all nodes to a certain expansion level
      • Explicit expanding of the current node to a certain level
      • Automatic expansion ot tags after buffer-parsing
      • Automatic expanding the ECB-methods-buffer for current tag
    • Customizing the display of the Methods-buffer
    • Rebuilding the Methods-buffer
  • Applying filters to the special ECB-tree-buffers
    • Applying filters to the Directories-buffer
    • Applying filters to the Sources-buffer
      • Interactive Sources-filters
      • Default Sources-filters
    • Applying filters to the History-buffer
      • Interactive History-filters
      • Default History-filters
    • Applying filters to the Methods-buffer
      • Possible filter-criterias
      • Inverse Filters
      • Layered filters
      • Display of currently applied filters
      • Default filters for certain files.
  • Changing, customizing, redrawing and creating layouts
    • Changing and customizing the ECB-layout
    • Redrawing the ECB-layout
    • Changing the sizes of the special ECB-windows
    • Fixing the sizes of the special ECB-windows
    • Interactively creating new layouts
  • Hiding/Showing the ECB windows
  • Maximizing the ECB windows
    • How to maximize and minimize special ecb-tree-windows
    • Selecting a node in a maximized ecb-tree-window
  • Back- and forward navigation like a browser
  • Synchronization of the ECB-windows
  • Stealthy background-tasks of ECB
  • Interactive ECB commands
• Customizing ECB
  • General aspects for customizing ECB
    • Setq or customize - what should i use?
    • Site-wide customizing of ECB
      • Storing all option-settings in the users custom-file
      • Using a special setq for site-wide settings
  • The most important options of ECB
  • All customizable options of ECB
    • Group ecb-general
    • Group ecb-tree-buffer
    • Group ecb-directories
    • Group ecb-sources
    • Group ecb-methods
    • Group ecb-history
    • Group ecb-analyse
    • Group ecb-layout
    • Group ecb-compilation
    • Group ecb-create-layout
    • Group ecb-face-options
    • Group ecb-faces
    • Group ecb-download
    • Group ecb-help
    • Group ecb-eshell
    • Group ecb-speedbar
    • Group ecb-non-semantic
    • Group ecb-winman
    • Group ecb-mode-line
    • Group ecb-version-control
• Submitting a problem report
• Upgrading and downloading packages
  • Downloading new versions of ECB and/or required packages
  • Automatic upgrading of options
    • User interface for option-upgrading
    • Background information
• Tips and tricks
  • Changing faces in the ECB tree-buffers
  • Working with small screens
  • Working with big screens
  • Simulating speedbar without an extra frame
  • Integrating speedbar in the ECB-frame
  • Working with large directories
  • Working with remote directories
    • General remarks
    • Excluding remote directories from time-consuming tasks
    • Caching the contents of remote directories
  • Supporting Version control systems
    • How ECB identifies the VC-backend of a dir
      • Special remarks for XEmacs
    • How ECB checks the VC-state of a file
      • Getting heuristic state-values or real ones for CVS
    • Important informations about remote repositories
      • Remote paths and the VC-support of ECB
    • How to refresh ECB-state-display when changed outside
    • Necessary steps and informations for adding new backends
    • Currently know problems with the VC-support
      • Remote repositories and XEmacs
  • Optimal using of eshell in ECB
  • Grepping directories with ECB
  • Working best with ECB and JDEE
  • Displaying the compile-window on demand
  • Parsing and displaying non-semantic sources
    • Enabling parsing and displaying of non-semantic-sources
    • Automatic rescanning/reparsing of non-semantic-sources
    • Customizing the display of the tags
  • Using hide-show from the methods-buffer-menu
  • Support of several Emacs-window-managers
    • Enabling of the support
    • Usage of a window-manager in combination with ECB
    • Disabling the support
  • Using semanticdb to jump to type-tags defined in other files
• Entry points for Elisp programmers
  • Variables for Elisp-programs
  • Available hooks of ECB
  • The library tree-buffer.el
    • General description of tree-buffers
      • What is a tree-buffer?
      • General recipe for a tree-buffer
    • How to create a new tree-buffer
    • How to create a new tree-node
      • Content of a tree-node
      • Creating a new tree-node and adding it to the tree
      • Accessing the slots of a tree-node
    • How to update a tree-buffer-display after changes
    • Default and customizable keybindings of a tree-buffer
    • All functions available for tree-buffers and tree-nodes
      • The API for a tree-buffer:
      • The API for a tree-node
    • Things which are strictly forbidden
    • How to deal with certain programming-requirements
      • Caching the current tree-buffer display
  • How to deal with the adviced window-functions
  • How to program new layouts and new special windows
    • How to program a new layout
    • All aspects of programming special windows
      • The outline of the example layout:
      • The description of the layout-contents
      • The example code
      • The bufferinfo buffer of the example
      • The action buffer of the example
      • Adding the bufferinfo- and action-buffer to a new layout
      • Synchronizing the bufferinfo-buffer automatically
      • Activating and deactivating new layouts
    • The wide range of possible layout-outlines
    • The complete layout-engine API of ECB
• Conflicts and bugs of ECB
  • Conflicts with other packages
    • Proved workarounds or recommendations for other packages
      • Package bs.el
      • Package BBDB
      • Package calendar.el
      • Package cygwin-mount.el
      • Package desktop.el
      • Package edebug (Lisp Debugger)
      • Package ediff.el
      • Package func-menu.el
      • Package Gnus (Newsreader)
      • Package JDEE (Java Development Environment)
      • Package scroll-all.el (scroll-all-mode)
      • Package VC (Version Control)
      • Package VM (Emacs Mail-Client)
      • Package winner.el (winner-mode)
      • Package wb-line-number.el
      • Application xrefactory
    • What to do for unknown conflicts with other packages
  • Known bugs
    • Following the source-file link in a help-buffer
    • Extra history-entries for JDEE source-buffers
• Frequently asked questions
• Command Index
• Option Index
• Concept Index