On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:11:16 -0400, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've put together a simple package to provide a minimalist visual
> appearance for Emacs. Screenshot and info:
> 
> http://dandavison.github.com/minimal/
> 
> In addition to getting rid of the usual suspects (scroll bars, menu
> bars, tool bars), this also replaces the mode line with a thin coloured
> separator line. Toggle the minor mode when you need this stuff.

This is really nice, especially on my netbook which is already as
minimalist as I could get it (ratpoison + dzen2).  Thanks!

One suggestion, although this might have an existing Emacs solution:
is it possible to also get rid of the mini-buffer and only have it
appear when needed?  One more line of text...