Re: GNU Manuals Online- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:

> > From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@cs.utk.edu>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:20:53 -0400
> > 
> > Emacs manual, tool-bar page: it would seem like a good idea to me to 
> > add the information about how to disable the tool-bar by default.
> > 
> > After a bit of experimenting I found that
> > (tool-bar-mode nil)
> > in the .emacs file did the trick, but this would have been impossible 
> > to discover in the manual in finite time.
> 
> The manual does say that tool-bar-mode toggles the tool bar, so
> reading the on-line docs of the function tool-bar-mode would have told
> you that.

It's possible that a user would first read Antinews, which mentions the
tool-bar like so on 21.2 :

        - There are no toolbars and no tooltips

Perhaps it would be better to spell it as "tool bar" since that's how
it's refered to elsewhere?

Peter