By default, Emacs typically displays curly arrows when wrapping lines. While likely a handy feature to some, I didn't really find much use for it. At the same time, I never looked into their removal until now. Turns out, there's a continuation entry in fringe-indicator-alist variable that handles this. Removing this entry also removes the curly arrows. (setq-default fringe-indicator-alist (delq (assq 'continuation fringe-indicator-alist) fringe-indicator-alist)) Alternatively, one could write...