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Victor Kirk <vkirk@technology.serco.com> writes:

> Is there any to turn these and the border off as I find them
> distracting and would like to gain a bit of extra space for text.

These are called fringes.  In a future version of Emacs (not 21.2,
not 21.3) you will be able to turn them off.

In the meantime, maybe it helps a little bit to change the background
color of the fringes to match the main window...

kai
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