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(Optional Mode Line): Explain how to turn off the 3D appearence of the mode line.

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an icon instead of @samp{Mail} by customizing
@code{display-time-use-mail-icon}; this may save some space on the mode
line.  You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail
indicator prominent.

@node Text Display
@section How Text Is Displayed
@cindex characters (in text)

  ASCII printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs

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an icon instead of @samp{Mail} by customizing
@code{display-time-use-mail-icon}; this may save some space on the mode
line.  You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail
indicator prominent.

@cindex mode line, 3D appearence
@cindex attributes of mode line, changing
@cindex non-integral number of lines in a window
  By default, the mode line is drawn on graphics displays as a 3D
released button.  Depending on the font used for the mode line's text,
this might make the mode line use more space than a text line in a
window, and cause the last line of the window be partially obscured.
That is, the window displays a non-integral number of text lines.  If
you don't like this effect, you can disable the 3D appearence of the
mode line by customizing the attributes of the @code{mode-line} face in
your @file{.emacs} init file, like this:

@example
 (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :box nil)
@end example

@noindent
Alternatively, you could turn off the box attribute in your
@file{.Xdefaults} file:

@example
 Emacs.mode-line.AttributeBox: off
@end example

@node Text Display
@section How Text Is Displayed
@cindex characters (in text)

  ASCII printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs