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Re: How to get rid of the tool bar
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: How to get rid of the tool bar |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:33:19 +0100 |
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Zaphod Beeblebrox <kagyukid@despam.yahoo.com> 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 <SPC> 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!
- How to get rid of the tool bar, Zaphod Beeblebrox, 2003/01/16
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, David Kastrup, 2003/01/16
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Zaphod Beeblebrox, 2003/01/16
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, David Kastrup, 2003/01/17
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar,
Kai Großjohann <=
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Zaphod Beeblebrox, 2003/01/19
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/20
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/20
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, David Kastrup, 2003/01/20
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Klaus Berndl, 2003/01/20
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Zaphod Beeblebrox, 2003/01/20
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Kai Großjohann, 2003/01/21
- Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2003/01/21
Re: How to get rid of the tool bar, Christopher J. White, 2003/01/16