Turn off fringes in text-mode

Question

How do I turn off fringes in text-mode? The closest I've gotten is this:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (set-fringe-mode '(0 . 0))))

But that turns off fringes permanently for all buffers after I've visited a text buffer once.

Answer 1

The documentation offers a couple of options: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Fringe-Size_002fPos.html

One of the options mentioned uses buffer-local variables -- i.e., left-window-fringe and right-window-fringe. However, the documentation discusses some exceptions when those settings will not take effect immediately. The following example uses a value of 0 for the width.

(setq left-fringe-width 0)

(setq right-fringe-width 0)

Another method described in the documentation uses the function set-window-fringes -- e.g.,

(set-window-fringes (selected-window) 0 0 nil)

The latter example will take effect immediately when evaluating it in a window that is already displayed.