Tip #259: removing the toolbar (icons) from gvim

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created:		June 12, 2002 18:52		complexity:		basic
author:		Ali Rizvi		as of Vim:		6.0

Change good or bad usually encounters interia from people in excepting it. gvim 6.0 is the first version that introduced the icons shortcut in shape of a toolbar under the menu. when we upgraded to the new and improved vim 6.1 from vim 5.7 some of people in our company encountered some problems with their syntax highlighting and some of them objected on the new toolbar which displayed icons for some common tasks for people more used to GUI. I finally figured out how to remove this new feature since I also didn't see much use for it Here is for all those who haven't figured it out yet In your .gvimrc include the following two lines unmenu ToolBar unmenu! ToolBar Doing this from an open gvim does not remove them but grays them out but doing from gvimrc does the job I was also trying to remove the menus at the top and almost succeeded with a similar technique but somehow the Buffer menu item stays there no matter what. IMHO it is a bug but it could very well be a feature ;) I tried this unmenu * unmenu! * even added this line after the above two but didn't help unmenu Buffers I hope this benefits you all as much as I have benefitted from all your tips

<<how long is the current word? | gvim-->mouse-->popup menu >>

Additional Notes

[email protected], June 12, 2002 19:13

So how about just doing the following: :set guioptions-=T This causes the toolbar to not show. (This is how I have it.)

[email protected], June 12, 2002 19:15

Similarly, :set guioptions-=m or -=M (more extreme solution, I think) works quite well for hiding the menus. Perhaps a more general :help 'guioptions' should be suggested? *grin*

[email protected], July 29, 2002 13:19

As I posted in another thread on hiding the toolbar, this will make the toolbar/menu toggleable: set guioptions-=T "get rid of toolbar :let g:toggleTool = 0 map <silent> <S-F1> :if g:toggleTool == 1<CR>:set guioptions-=T<CR>:let g:toggleTool = 0<CR>:else<CR>:set guioptions+=T<CR>:let g:toggleTool = 1<CR>:endif<CR> " set guioptions-=m "get rid of menu :let g:toggleMenu = 0 map <silent> <S-F2> :if g:toggleMenu == 1<CR>:set guioptions-=m<CR>:let g:toggleMenu = 0<CR>:else<CR>:set guioptions+=m<CR>:let g:toggleMenu = 1<CR>:endif<CR> Tom Kimpton




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