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Chapters:
  1: Introduction
  2: Simple example
  3: Invocation
  4: Finer Control
  5: X-Y Plots
  6: Contour Plots
  7: Image Plots
  8: Examples
  9: Gri Commands
  10: Programming
  11: Environment
  12: Emacs Mode
  13: History
  14: Installation
  15: Gri Bugs
  16: Test Suite
  17: Gri in Press
  18: Acknowledgments
  19: License

Indices:
  Concepts
  Commands
  Variables
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12.5: Other features of gri-mode

  • `IMenu support': IMenu is a GNU/Emacs package used to source code files. It can be setup for a particular mode to list a menu of function definitions and variable declarations. In gri-mode, the IMenu is available from the menubar and provides links to `new command declarations' as well as value settings for `variables' and `synomyns'.
  • `Toolbar support': XEmacs21 and Emacs-21 have support for a toolbar (a set of iconic buttons that are shortcuts for commands), however the two editors don't not have compatible toolbar setups. Currently gri-mode only defines a single icon for XEmacs (to run gri on the current buffer) and defines three for GNU/Emacs (to run gri, to view the postscript file, and to lookup Info about the command on the current line).
  • `Idle Help': When GNU/Emacs sits idle with the cursor on a command line, it looks up any defaults the command may have and displays the information in the minibuffer. For example, sitting on a line that says `set font size 10', it will display `set font size: default is 12 point in variable ..fontsize..'.

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