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ECB is a global minor-mode which offers a couple of ECB-windows for browsing your sources comfortable with the mouse and the keyboard. These "special" windows are also called interactors in this manual.
ECB offers some basic interactors to browse your sources:
See Basic interactors for a detailled description what these basic interactors offer. See ECB-interactors for a general introduction in the interactor-concept of ECB.
In addition to these "special" ECB-windows you have always an edit-area where you can edit your source-files. The edit-area can be divided into several edit-windows - as many as you need (see The edit-area). And at the bottom of the ECB-frame a persistent compilation-window (also called compile-window) can be displayed (optional), where all the output of Emacs-compilation (compile, grep etc.) is shown (see Temp- and compile-buffers).
The following "screenshot" illustrates the typical layout of the
ECB-frame1:
------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Directories | | | | | |--------------| | | | | | Sources | | | | | |--------------| Edit-area | | | (can be splitted in several edit-windows) | | Methods | | | | | |--------------| | | | | | History | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | Persistent Compilation-window (optional) | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
This is only one example of the layouts ECB offers, see Changing the ECB-layout