Re: emacs21: annoying black side stripes

[Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>]

Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 10:28, tom lightbody a écrit :
> hello from New Zealand:

Hi,

> emacs21: debian sarge: xfree86-4: fvwm2: thinkpad 600e/t22
> 
> to either side of the main editing window, 2 vertical black
> stripes just inside the border.  They are not scrollbars; neither
> inside border nor outside border adjustment makes them go away.
> 
> with emacs20 (identical .emacs) they do not occur.  But using
> emacs20 from potato, causes dependency problems with sarge.
> 
> how to rid myself of these 2 black stripes?

You can't. They are called fringes and used to display special
characters.
You'll have to wait for emacs22 which will allow them to be disabled.

Cheers,

-- 
Jérôme Marant