How can I hide the emacs status bar?

Question

I would like to completely hide the emacs status bar. Is it possible? I could not find anything about it through Google.

Answer 1

On a more humorous level, setting mode-line-format to nil will remove it. Look here

Answer 2

Emacs darkroom may be what you are looking for. This will remove all possible distractions of the Emacs interface.

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The original site does not seem to be working (as of January 2014). Here is the source on bitbucket

Answer 3

Hide status bar globally

(setq-default mode-line-format nil) 

The preferred way to completely hide the status bar is (setq-default mode-line-format nil) in your init.el file.

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Hide status bar of current buffer

 (setq mode-line-format nil) 

M-: hide the status bar of the current buffer, M-: followed by (setq mode-line-format nil) when prompted.