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From: patrol <patrol_boat@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mode line removal option?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:00:52 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <676fe920-63ee-4aa0-92a4-32a9de4a5786@s9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k4sdwrf0.fsf@fh-trier.de

On Apr 11, 6:33 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> patrol <patrol_b...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > I've found options for removing the scroll bar, fringes, tool bar, and
> > menu bar. Is there an option to remove the mode line? (not that I see
> > any good reason for it -- I want to know, just for the sake of knowing
> > my options -- if there's a built-in option for that that I haven't
> > been able to find).
> > Thanks
>
> (setq mode-line-format nil)
>
> -ap

Yup, that answers my question all right! Thanks. My only follow up
question would be why it is that removing the mode line is a matter of
setting a variable, whereas removing other window elements (fringes,
scroll bar, etc.) is a matter of running a command.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-11 21:28 mode line removal option? patrol
2010-04-11 21:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-04-11 22:33 ` Andreas Politz
2010-04-12  0:00   ` patrol [this message]
2010-04-12  3:39     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-12 13:50       ` patrol

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