Redhat 8 - How do I get rid of the button bar?

Redhat 8 - How do I get rid of the button bar?

[Andrew Esh]

Redhat 8.0 includes emacs 21.2.1, and they configured it to have a bar 
of icon buttons for simple things like Copy and Next Buffer. It's a 
waste of screen real-estate.

How do I turn it off?

I've looked through the configure file in the emacs tarball, and I don't 
see anything related. I also went through the Customize menus a couple 
of times, but couldn't find any setting that affected it.

Re: Redhat 8 - How do I get rid of the button bar?

[Sam Halliday]

Andrew Esh wrote:
> Redhat 8.0 includes emacs 21.2.1, and they configured it to have a bar
> 
> of icon buttons for simple things like Copy and Next Buffer. It's a 
> waste of screen real-estate.
> 
> How do I turn it off?

add

  (tool-bar-mode nil)

to your ~/.emacs

Re: Redhat 8 - How do I get rid of the button bar?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Redhat 8.0 includes emacs 21.2.1, and they configured it to have a bar of
> icon buttons for simple things like Copy and Next Buffer. It's a waste of
> screen real-estate.
> How do I turn it off?

As the splash screen explains, you can read about the new stuff in C-h N.
Every user should do that, especially when he notices something that
annoys him.


        Stefan

Re: Redhat 8 - How do I get rid of the button bar?

[Stefan Monnier]

> As the splash screen explains, you can read about the new stuff in C-h N.

Hmm... looks like Alzheimer is catching up with me.
Sorry, the splash screen doesn't say anything about C-h n.
But anyway, Help => Emacs News (bound to C-h n) is what you want.


        Stefan