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<h2>How to use this manual</h2>
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<p><strong>IMPORTANT</strong>: You should have read the chapter <a href="Overview.html#Overview">Overview</a>
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before going on reading the current chapter.
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<p>This chapter describes shortly the contents of the following chapters
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of this manual so maybe you can find faster what you are searching
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<br><dt>All interactors of ECB (see <a href="ECB-interactors.html#ECB-interactors">ECB-interactors</a>)
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<dd>Gives an introduction into the concept of interactors of ECB, what
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they are, which different types exist, how they look, how they can be
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used and last but not least what they do in detail, i.e. explains
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every interactor of ECB in detail.
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<br><dt>Activation and Deactivation (see <a href="Activation-and-Deactivation.html#Activation%20and%20Deactivation">Activation and Deactivation</a>)
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<dd>Describes how to activate and deactivate ECB and which different types
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of activation are possible.
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<br><dt>Usage of ECB (see <a href="Usage-of-ECB.html#Usage%20of%20ECB">Usage of ECB</a>)
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<dd>Describes in detail how to use ECB with mouse and keyboard, explains
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the concept of the edit-area and the persistent compile-window,
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describe how to change the window-layout and hide and show special
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windows, which stealthy background-tasks ECB performs and so on...
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<br><dt>Customizing ECB (see <a href="Customizing.html#Customizing">Customizing</a>)
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<dd>Gives an overview of the most important options of ECB and tell you
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something about do's and don'ts concerning customization of ECB. Lists
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all options of ECB and describe exactly the purpose of them.
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<br><dt>Submitting a problem report (see <a href="Submitting-problem-report.html#Submitting%20problem%20report">Submitting problem report</a>)
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<dd>Instructions what to do if you encounters problems with ECB.
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<br><dt>Upgrading and downloading ECB (see <a href="Upgrading.html#Upgrading">Upgrading</a>)
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<dd>Gives an introduction into the automatic option-upgrading-feature of
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ECB and you can download and install a newer ECB-version from within
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<br><dt>Tips and tricks (see <a href="Tips-and-tricks.html#Tips%20and%20tricks">Tips and tricks</a>)
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<dd>How to deal with special situations and circumstances, so e.g. working
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with big and small screens, working with large directories, using the
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builtin version-control-support of ECB, parsing non-semantic-supported
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sources like perl, using hide-show, working best with eshell and JDEE
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and some window-managers of Emacs (like escreen or winring) and many
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<br><dt>Entry points for Elisp programmers (see <a href="Elisp-programming.html#Elisp%20programming">Elisp programming</a>)
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<dd>All informations needed by programmers when using some ECB-concepts
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from within other elisp-libraries. This includes a full description
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how to use the ECB-independent library tree-buffer.el. Lists also all
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available hooks and describes with full working example how to program
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<br><dt>Conflicts and bugs of ECB (see <a href="Conflicts-and-bugs.html#Conflicts%20and%20bugs">Conflicts and bugs</a>)
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<dd>Lists all currently known bugs and problems and gives well working
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<br><dt>Frequently asked Questions (see <a href="FAQ.html#FAQ">FAQ</a>)
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<br><dt>Command Index (see <a href="Command-Index.html#Command%20Index">Command Index</a>)
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<dd>List of all interactive commands of ECB
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<br><dt>Option Index (see <a href="Option-Index.html#Option%20Index">Option Index</a>)
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<dd>List of all user-customizable options of ECB
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<br><dt>Concept Index (see <a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept%20Index">Concept Index</a>)
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<dd>List of all concepts introduced by ECB