XEmacs Internals Manual

Version 1.2, October 1998

• A History of Emacs
• Through Version 18
• Lucid Emacs
• GNU Emacs 19
• GNU Emacs 20
• XEmacs
• XEmacs From the Outside
• The Lisp Language
• XEmacs From the Perspective of Building
• XEmacs From the Inside
• The XEmacs Object System (Abstractly Speaking)
• How Lisp Objects Are Represented in C
• Rules When Writing New C Code
• General Coding Rules
• Writing Lisp Primitives
• Adding Global Lisp Variables
• Coding for Mule
• Character-Related Data Types
• Working With Character and Byte Positions
• Conversion to and from External Data
• General Guidelines for Writing Mule-Aware Code
• An Example of Mule-Aware Code
• Techniques for XEmacs Developers
• A Summary of the Various XEmacs Modules
• Low-Level Modules
• Basic Lisp Modules
• Modules for Standard Editing Operations
• Editor-Level Control Flow Modules
• Modules for the Basic Displayable Lisp Objects
• Modules for other Display-Related Lisp Objects
• Modules for the Redisplay Mechanism
• Modules for Interfacing with the File System
• Modules for Other Aspects of the Lisp Interpreter and Object System
• Modules for Interfacing with the Operating System
• Modules for Interfacing with X Windows
• Modules for Internationalization
• Allocation of Objects in XEmacs Lisp
• Introduction to Allocation
• Garbage Collection
• GCPROing
• Integers and Characters
• Allocation from Frob Blocks
• lrecords
• Low-level allocation
• Pure Space
• Cons
• Vector
• Bit Vector
• Symbol
• Marker
• String
• Compiled Function
• Events and the Event Loop
• Introduction to Events
• Main Loop
• Specifics of the Event Gathering Mechanism
• Specifics About the Emacs Event
• The Event Stream Callback Routines
• Other Event Loop Functions
• Converting Events
• Dispatching Events; The Command Builder
• Evaluation; Stack Frames; Bindings
• Evaluation
• Dynamic Binding; The specbinding Stack; Unwind-Protects
• Simple Special Forms
• Catch and Throw
• Symbols and Variables
• Introduction to Symbols
• Obarrays
• Symbol Values
• Buffers and Textual Representation
• Introduction to Buffers
• The Text in a Buffer
• Buffer Lists
• Markers and Extents
• Bufbytes and Emchars
• The Buffer Object
• MULE Character Sets and Encodings
• Character Sets
• Encodings
• Japanese EUC (Extended Unix Code)
• JIS7
• Internal Mule Encodings
• Internal String Encoding
• Internal Character Encoding
• CCL
• The Lisp Reader and Compiler
• Lstreams
• Creating an Lstream
• Lstream Types
• Lstream Functions
• Lstream Methods
• Consoles; Devices; Frames; Windows
• Introduction to Consoles; Devices; Frames; Windows
• Point
• Window Hierarchy
• The Window Object
• The Redisplay Mechanism
• Critical Redisplay Sections
• Line Start Cache
• Extents
• Introduction to Extents
• Extent Ordering
• Format of the Extent Info
• Zero-Length Extents
• Mathematics of Extent Ordering
• Extent Fragments
• Faces and Glyphs
• Specifiers
• Menus
• Subprocesses
• Interface to X Windows
• Index

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