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 one or two edit-windows (see The edit-window) in the ECB-frame and at the bottom a compilation-window (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-window(s) | | | (can be splitted in two windows) | | Methods | | | | | |--------------| | | | | | History | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | Compilation-window (optional) | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------
In the following subsections the "special" ECB-windows will be explained in detail.