Button Bar

Button Bar

[Edward Welbourne]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-22 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena --without-gif'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I upgraded to emacs 21.
I lost a bunch of screen real-estate to a row of buttons.

I don't know what the buttons mean until I wave my mouse over them to
see the pop-up text, which reveals that I already know how to do all
those things via the key-board, except for printing stuff, which I
never do.  It's totally useless to me but I have to give up screen
estate to it, so I want it to go away.

I invoked configuration ... well, we sure have a lot of junk we can
configure, but I've no idea what this button-bar is called and I can't
see any evidence of what will make it go away.  I tried a whole load
of stuff which didn't make it go away, then used vi to restore my
.emacs to a sane state.

Please tell me the variable I need to set in my elisp to make it go
away (oh, and make sure it's something the customize-tool in later
versions mentions sometime within the first month of searching).
While we're at it, if there's some way to suppress the (not *entirely*
useless) menu-bar above it, I'd like to know that too.

I want my screen devoted to *text* !

Recent input:
C-r C-r C-r C-n C-p C-s C-w C-w C-r C-r C-x C-x C-n 
M-f M-f M-f M-f M-f M-f C-a M-f C-d SPC - M-q C-n C-x 
C-s C-x o C-x k <return> C-x v = C-x o C-v C-x o C-v 
C-x o M-v C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-b 
C-l M-x e m a c s - b u g <return> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <tab> <M-backspace> b u <tab> g <tab> <M-backspace> 
r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Creating customization buffer...done
Mark saved where search started
Wrote /home/eddy/work/qt-embed/url2/argsplit.cpp
Mark saved where search started
Auto-saving...done
Wrote /home/eddy/work/qt-embed/url2/argsplit.cpp
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
Wrote /home/eddy/work/qt-embed/url2/argsplit.cpp
Making completion list... [3 times]
Loading emacsbug...done

Re: Button Bar

[Paul Stoeber]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:04:25PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> I want my screen devoted to *text* !

`(menu-bar-mode 0)' turns off the menu bar on character screens
and in X.

`(tool-bar-mode 0)' turns off the tool bar in X.

`emacs --no-windows' avoids graphical elements entirely,
as does not using X. ;-)

Re: Button Bar

[Kai Großjohann]

eddy@opera.no (Edward Welbourne) writes:

> I upgraded to emacs 21.
> I lost a bunch of screen real-estate to a row of buttons.

Please read the NEWS file after upgrading Emacs.  It tells you about
all kinds of interesting things, including how to turn off the
tool-bar.

M-x customize-variable RET tool-bar-mode RET

kai
-- 
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards.  (BFBS Radio)

Re: Button Bar

[Edward Welbourne]

Thank you ;^)
I'll leave you to imagine how *annoyed* I had to get before reporting
*that* as a bug ... the remedy is proportionately welcome.

> `emacs --no-windows' avoids graphical elements entirely,
> as does not using X. ;-)

ah, but with X I get 59 lines (plus a mode-line and minibuffer line)
of width 162, or C-x 3 gives me two 78-column windows side-by-side -
and this can only be improved when I finally sort out my mangled XF86
config (or give up and chose smaller fonts) - whereas the raw terminal
only gives me 22 lines in one 79-column window (albeit with nice big
friendly fonts).  I can do the same with -nw in a big xterm (53 lines,
167 columns or twice 81), but the little subtle irritants get to me in
the end.  Having a Real Solution is the Right Answer.  Making it
easier to find in customization would help, too.

Keep up the good work,

	Eddy.