From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of the tool bar Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:33:19 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84fzrrd6lc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042824867 29112 80.91.224.249 (17 Jan 2003 17:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ZaNt-0007ZN-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:34:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZaOj-0002aB-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:35:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951fcde.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 64 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fcde.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.252.222) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042824846 24556424 217.81.252.222 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xGrEH3DSKotK/hf9Eeg5LV/H/w8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109093 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5620 Zaphod Beeblebrox writes: > It's only some because I've not spent the time wading into the > plethora of stuff Emacs is capable of. I couldn't make use of the > information in the NEWS file (I don't even use the menus at the > top). What does the NEWS file have to do with the menus at the top? > All those references to lisp code assume knowledge I don't have and > don't help if I don't know where to use them. The NEWS file is divided into sections. You can just skip the Lisp stuff. Here is the part about the toolbar. I found it by searching for "tool" in the NEWS file. /---- | ** Tool bar support. | | Emacs supports a tool bar at the top of a frame under X. For details | of how to define a tool bar, see the page describing Lisp-level | changes. Tool-bar global minor mode controls whether or not it is | displayed and is on by default. The appearance of the bar is improved | if Emacs has been built with XPM image support. Otherwise monochrome | icons will be used. | | To make the tool bar more useful, we need contributions of extra icons | for specific modes (with copyright assignments). \---- It says that "tool-bar global minor mode" allows you to turn it off. What's a minor mode? I do C-h i d m Emacs RET to open the Emacs manual, then type i for an index search, then "minor mode" as the search string. This gives me a couple of false positives, but just hitting comma (as instructed) finally brings me to the node "(emacs)Minor Modes" which has the following: /---- | Minor modes are optional features which you can turn on or off. For | example, Auto Fill mode is a minor mode in which breaks lines | between words as you type. All the minor modes are independent of each | other and of the selected major mode. Most minor modes say in the mode | line when they are on; for example, `Fill' in the mode line means that | Auto Fill mode is on. | | Append `-mode' to the name of a minor mode to get the name of a | command function that turns the mode on or off. Thus, the command to | enable or disable Auto Fill mode is called `M-x auto-fill-mode'. These | commands are usually invoked with `M-x', but you can bind keys to them | if you wish. With no argument, the function turns the mode on if it was | off and off if it was on. This is known as "toggling". A positive | argument always turns the mode on, and an explicit zero argument or a | negative argument always turns it off. \---- So, M-x auto-fill-mode RET turns on (or off) auto fill mode. So what is the command for turning on (or off) tool-bar mode? > My .emacs file doesn't have any define-key statements, so I was > reluctant to tinker with structures I don't understand. What does the tool-bar have to do with define-key statements? -- Ambibibentists unite!