Menu Deletion, Appearance, and Special Menus: Toolbar and Popup

but with "menu" changed to "unmenu". Thus ":menu" becomes, ":unmenu", ":nmenu" becomes ":nunmenu", etc. To delete the "Tools.Make" item for Insert mode: > :iunmenu Tools.Make You can delete a whole menu, with all its items, by using the menu name. Example: > :aunmenu Syntax This deletes the Syntax menu and all the items in it. ============================================================================== *42.3* Various You can change the appearance of the menus with flags in 'guioptions'. In the default value they are all included, except "M". You can remove a flag with a command like: > :set guioptions-=m < m When removed the menubar is not displayed. M When added the default menus are not loaded. g When removed the inactive menu items are not made grey but are completely removed. (Does not work on all systems.) For translating menu items, see |:menutrans|. Since the mouse has to be used to select a menu item, it is a good idea to use the ":browse" command for selecting a file. And ":confirm" to get a dialog instead of an error message, e.g., when the current buffer contains changes. These two can be combined: > :amenu File.Open :browse confirm edit<CR> The ":browse" makes a file browser appear to select the file to edit. The ":confirm" will pop up a dialog when the current buffer has changes. You can then select to save the changes, throw them away or cancel the command. For more complicated items, the confirm() and inputdialog() functions can be used. The default menus contain a few examples. ============================================================================== *42.4* Toolbar and popup menus There are two special menus: ToolBar and PopUp. Items that start with these names do not appear in the normal menu bar. TOOLBAR The toolbar appears only when the "T" flag is included in the 'guioptions' option. The toolbar uses icons rather than text to represent the command. For example, the {menu-item} named "ToolBar.New" causes the "New" icon to appear on the toolbar. The Vim editor has 28 built-in icons. You can find a table here: |builtin-tools|. Most of them are used in the default toolbar. You can redefine what these items do (after the default menus are setup). You can add another bitmap for a toolbar item. Or define a new toolbar item with a bitmap. For example, define a new

This section explains how to delete menus using the ":unmenu" command and customize menu appearance with 'guioptions' flags. It also introduces special menus like ToolBar and PopUp. The ToolBar menu uses icons from |builtin-tools| and is displayed when the 'T' flag is in 'guioptions'. It suggests using ":browse" and ":confirm" for menu items that require mouse usage or handling unsaved changes. It mentions using confirm() and inputdialog() functions for complex items.