Truncation Folding or wrapping long text lines. The Echo Area Where messages are displayed. Invisible Text Hiding part of the buffer text. Overlay Arrow Display of an arrow to indicate position. Temporary Displays Displays that go away automatically.
Overlays Use overlays to highlight parts of the buffer.
Blinking How Emacs shows the matching open parenthesis. Inverse Video Specifying how the screen looks. The usual conventions for displaying nonprinting chars. Display Tables How to specify other conventions. Beeping Audible signal to the user.