Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Tim X]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>
>> + Amy Templeton <amy.g.templeton@gmail.com>:
>>
>> | Somebody a little ways back said something about the
>> | interface not being "friendly" or something because it lacks
>> | flashy buttons and popups and stuff, but I actually had to
>> | turn all of that stuff off
>>
>> Yep, first thing I did when 21 was out was to add (tool-bar-mode 0)
>> to my .emacs file ...
>
> Gross!  How can you stand the resize flicker?  Put
>
> Emacs.toolBar: 0
>
> into your X resources, as well as startup fonts and geometry.
>

Have to agree with David here. Thats exactly what I did and why I did it. apart
from that, I think its easier, clearer and faster than writing bits of elisp to
set the default frame, the initial frame and then turn off toolbar etc.

Tim

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