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<title>ECB - the Emacs Code Browser</title>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>ECB is a global minor-mode which offers a couple of <dfn>ECB-windows</dfn>
for browsing your sources comfortable with the mouse and the keyboard.
These "special" windows are also called <dfn>tree-buffer</dfn> in this
manual. Every <dfn>item</dfn> in such a tree-buffer, i.e. every line, is
also called a <dfn>node</dfn> of this tree-buffer. See <a href="Tree-buffer-styles.html#Tree-buffer%20styles">Tree-buffer styles</a> to get an impression about the look&feel of these
tree-buffers. There are currently three different types of
ECB-windows/tree-buffers:
<ul>
<li>ECB-Directories
<li>ECB-Sources
<li>ECB-Methods
</ul>
<p>In addition to these "special" ECB-windows you have always an
<dfn>edit-area</dfn> where you can edit sour source-files. The edit-area
can be divided into several <dfn>edit-windows</dfn> - as many as you need
(see <a href="The-edit-area.html#The%20edit-area">The edit-area</a>). And at the bottom of the ECB-frame a
durable <dfn>compilation-window</dfn> (also called <dfn>compile-window</dfn>)
can be displayed (optional), where all the output of Emacs-compilation
(compile, grep etc.) is shown (see <a href="Temp--and-compile-buffers.html#Temp-%20and%20compile-buffers">Temp- and compile-buffers</a>).
<p>The following "ascii-screenshot" illustrates the typical layout of
the ECB-frame<a rel=footnote href="#fn-1"><sup>1</sup></a>:
<br><pre>------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| Directories | |
| | |
|--------------| |
| | |
| Sources | |
| | |
|--------------| Edit-area |
| | (can be splitted in several edit-windows) |
| Methods | |
| | |
|--------------| |
| | |
| History | |
| | |
------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
| Compilation-window (optional) |
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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<p>In the following subsections the "special" ECB-windows will be
explained in detail.
<ul>
<li><a accesskey=1 href="ECB-Directories-buffer.html#ECB%20Directories-buffer">ECB Directories-buffer</a>: Contents of the ECB Directories-buffer
<li><a accesskey=2 href="ECB-Sources-buffer.html#ECB%20Sources-buffer">ECB Sources-buffer</a>: Contents of the ECB Sources/history-buffer
<li><a accesskey=3 href="ECB-Methods-buffer.html#ECB%20Methods-buffer">ECB Methods-buffer</a>: Contents of the ECB Methods-buffer
</ul>
<hr><h4>Footnotes</h4>
<ol type="1">
<li><a name="fn-1"></a>
<p>This is only one example of the layouts ECB
offers, see <a href="Changing-the-ECB-layout.html#Changing%20the%20ECB-layout">Changing the ECB-layout</a></p>
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