Tool bar

Tool bar stays on top of Emacs frame right beneath the menu bar which allows accessing few common commands by mouse. Since Emacs is designed to be key board centric, most of the Emacs users like to turn it off. tool-bar-mode is a minor mode to toggles the appearance of tool bar .

tool-bar-mode

Description	toggles the tool-bar apperance
Author	Dave Love
Maintainer	FSF
Source	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/tool-bar.el
Part of Emacs	yes

Basic setup

To turn off tool bar, add the following to your .emacs

 (tool-bar-mode -1)

by calling tool-bar-mode it appears again.

See Also

menu bar