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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>  Or do you mean the horizontal separator between windows, the one
> below the displayed text, where you see the buffer's name, the current
> line number, etc.?
...
> For the latter: no, you cannot disable it, nor make it a single thin
> line.  About the only thing I know of that can help you is to
> customize the `mode-line' face to use a smaller font.

Actually you _can_ disable it in Emacs 21:  (setq-default mode-line-format nil)

I wouldn't recommend it though -- you won't be able to eaily tell where
one window ends and the next begins, there's not even a thin line or
anything.

-Miles
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