Appearance

Minimal Emacs

Intermediate users might prefer to turn off or customize Toolbar, Menubar and Scrollbar. This provides a distraction free environment and maximizes the screen area available for coding or text editing.

M-x customize-variable RET tool-bar-mode

Turn off toolbar

M-x customize-variable RET menu-bar-mode

Turn off menubar

M-x customize-variable RET scroll-bar-mode

Turn off scrollbar.

M-x customize-variable RET blink-cursor-mode

Also see M-x customize-group RET Cursor RET