Agreed emacs 23 is a vast improvement, however the UI elements i.e. menubar, scr...

grandalf · on May 27, 2011

I just turn off all the chrome and use it as a text editor.

singular · on May 27, 2011

Me too, but my point is that you have to do that to begin with.

If anyone is interested, this gets rid of the splash screen + chrome:-

    (setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
    (if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode) (scroll-bar-mode -1))
    (if (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) (tool-bar-mode -1))
    (if (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode) (menu-bar-mode -1))