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diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi index 96e05a902d6..b87ca81faea 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/display.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ the text is displayed. * Faces:: How to change the display style using faces. * Colors:: Specifying colors for faces. * Standard Faces:: The main predefined faces. +* Icons:: How to change how icons look. * Text Scale:: Increasing or decreasing text size in a buffer. * Font Lock:: Minor mode for syntactic highlighting using faces. * Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight. @@ -851,6 +852,38 @@ This face is used to display on text-mode terminals the menu item that would be selected if you click a mouse or press @key{RET}. @end table +@node Icons +@section Icons + +Emacs sometimes displays clickable buttons (or other informative +icons), and the look of these can be customized by the user. + +@vindex icon-preference +The main customization point here is the @code{icon-preference} user +option. By using this, you can tell Emacs your overall preferences +for icons. This is a list of icon types, and the first icon type +that's supported will be used. The supported types are: + +@table @code +@item image +Use an image for the icon. + +@item emoji +Use a colorful emoji for the icon. + +@item symbol +Use a monochrome symbol for the icon. + +@item text +Use a simple text for the icon. +@end table + +In addition, each individual icon can be customized with @kbd{M-x +customize-icon}, and themes can further alter the looks of the icons. + +To get a quick description of an icon, use the @kbd{M-x describe-icon} +command. + @node Text Scale @section Text Scale |