From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:41:57 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ps5rv5ei.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87bqhd4swc.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <854pn4nvoh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177583714 11387 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2007 10:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:35:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 12:35:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hh1Jg-0006cO-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:35:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hh1PP-0007Hx-5Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:41:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-03!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-01!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:77fF20zVMiJnz1Sd6FbUjReFWKs= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147613 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:43216 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > >> + Amy Templeton : >> >> | Somebody a little ways back said something about the >> | interface not being "friendly" or something because it lacks >> | flashy buttons and popups and stuff, but I actually had to >> | turn all of that stuff off >> >> Yep, first thing I did when 21 was out was to add (tool-bar-mode 0) >> to my .emacs file ... > > Gross! How can you stand the resize flicker? Put > > Emacs.toolBar: 0 > > into your X resources, as well as startup fonts and geometry. > Have to agree with David here. Thats exactly what I did and why I did it. apart from that, I think its easier, clearer and faster than writing bits of elisp to set the default frame, the initial frame and then turn off toolbar etc. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au