From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to enable tool-bar permanently? Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:34:17 +0100 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87br0keshy.wl@nospam.anselm.chemie.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132143692 15956 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 12:21:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 13:21:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcMHl-0007Co-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:21:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcMHk-0002pn-AN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:21:08 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de PcfoDugsDXAB13NNxRhYpQXyarIqaNvT55IbBdHiN/Nb407LX7b9jrOwXf X-Orig-Path: azrael.lygophilia.de!news In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: anselm@chemie.fu-berlin.de User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.30 (Wonderwall) Emacs/21.4 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Meat: Haggis Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135498 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31095 Archived-At: > I have read that I can use the .Xresources but I would rather have it in > my .emacs file. now, that's an easy one: (tool-bar-mode 1) > What is the reason the the tool-bar is disabled by default? well, that's a matter of taste, of course. the tool-bar takes up a lot of screen real estate, and does not offer that many functions (like, compared to the menu bar). and you can do everything with the keyboard anyway. furthermore, the toolbar was added in gnu emacs 21 (someone correct me if i'm wrong), so it presumably was turned off by default to not confuse users switching from gnu emacs 20 too much. but i am not an emacs developer, so, just guessing... kind regards, anselm