How to remove the vertical border between windows in Emacs

Question

How can I remove the border between windows? I'm using Emacs with -nw

Faerie

Answer 1

The border is drawn in vertical-border-face, so you could customize that to match your background color:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Split-Window.html

It won't be completly removed, but you won't be able to see it with the correct configuration.

Soulless

Thanks! vertical-border was the way to go. – Faerie

Answer 2

To "remove" the vertical bar characters (|) in terminal Emacs, you could make them have the same color as their background. This effectively makes them invisible. Add this to your Emacs configuration file:

(set-face-foreground 'vertical-border
                     (face-background 'vertical-border nil t))

Before: After:

Marty