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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 tree-buffer in this manual. Every item in such a tree-buffer, i.e. every line, is also called a node of this tree-buffer. See Tree-buffer styles to get an impression about the look&feel of these tree-buffers. There are currently three different types of ECB-windows/tree-buffers:
In addition to these "special" ECB-windows you have always an edit-area where you can edit sour 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 durable 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 "ascii-screenshot" illustrates the typical layout of
the ECB-frame1:
------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Directories | | | | | |--------------| | | | | | Sources | | | | | |--------------| Edit-area | | | (can be splitted in several edit-windows) | | Methods | | | | | |--------------| | | | | | History | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | Compilation-window (optional) | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
In the following subsections the "special" ECB-windows will be explained in detail.
This is only one example of the layouts ECB offers, see Changing the ECB-layout