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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Kelly Porpiglia wrote:

> > > _Please_ allow users to remove the "fringe" in future versions of emacs!
> > 
> > The development sources already allow that.
> 
> Really?  How?  Is there something that I can add to my .emacs?

You do that by customizing the fringe-mode variable.

> I've searched the FAQ, web, and newsgroups, and all I found was that it isn't 
> supported in version 21.2.  Sorry if I missed something...

I said "development sources", which means that no released version has 
that feature yet.  Version 21.4 is expected to have it; or you could get 
the CVS code, if you don't mind running alpha software.