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In GNU Emacs 19.25.1 of Sat Jun 25 1994 on enlil (i386-unknown-emx)

it is not possible to disable the mode line completely.  I realize
that characterizing this as a bug is contentious, since it is equally
arguable that it is a feature.  However, the inability to configure a
piece of Emacs' behaviour bucks the otherwise all-embracing trend to
enable the user to choose what Emacs does and when.

My rationale is based on the increasing utility of Emacs as a portable
window manager.  It is very nice to be able to structure the display
to have several different types of information in several
non-overlapping frames, but the loss of one line to a frame title and
another to the mode line is suboptimal.  When using frames dedicated
to displaying a particular form of data the mode line may be redundant,
as it is in several of the frames I am accustomed to using.

I would (respectfully) suggest that (setq mode-line-format nil) should
suppress mode line display.

 Steve