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1.1 Main Features ¶

Some of the main benefits that Sweep brings to working with Prolog code in Emacs are:

• Semantic highlighting, see Semantic Highlighting.
• Automatic indentation, Indentation
• Structural editing and navigation, see Term-based editing and motion commands
• Jumping to predicate definitions and references, see Definitions and References
• On-the-fly diagnostics, see Examining Diagnostics
• Intelligent code completion, see Code Completion
• Refactoring, see Renaming Variables and Extracting Goals to Separate Predicates
• Integrated SWI-Prolog top-level, see The Prolog Top-level
• Ability to run Prolog queries directly from Emacs Lisp, Querying Prolog

These features and others are documented in the rest of this manual, along with many options that Sweep provides for you to customize its behavior.