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4.9.7: StatusBar

displayed at the bottom of the screen. There are only two reasons to turn off the status bar I am aware of:

• if you are using ne through a slow connection, updating the line/column indicator can really slow down editing;
• scrolling caused by cursor movement on terminals which do not allow to set a scrolling region can produce annoying flashes at the bottom of the screen.

If you call this command with no arguments, it will toggle the flag. If you specify 0 or 1, the flag will be set to false or true, respectively.