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Working with small screens

If your screen is very small so you need every square-centimeter for displaying the buffer which you want to edit, ECB offers you a special layouts, where only the ECB-methods buffer is displayed on top or on left-side. Here comes what you should/can do to work best with ECB in such a situation:

• First customize your ECB:
  1. Customize ecb-layout-name to layout-name "top2" (on top) or "left9" (on left-side)
  2. Ensure that ecb-compile-window-height is nil.
  3. Optional: Adjust the ecb-windows-height rsp. ecb-windows-width.
  4. Save your changes.
• To edit your buffers: Call ecb-toggle-ecb-windows (also available via the menu "ECB" and by C-c . lw) or ecb-hide-ecb-windows to hide the ECB-method buffer so you get all the place of your screen for editing.
• To browse and select functions: Call ecb-toggle-ecb-windows or ecb-show-ecb-windows to make the ECB-method buffer visible if not already. If you want select a method/variable with the keyboard instead with the mouse you should read the section Using the keyboard in this online help!

The possibility of hiding temporally the ECB windows like described above is also useful for all the other layouts.