Guido Milanese wrote:
I am sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I'm really puzzled.
I have been using vim for ages now, and for some tasks, not always, I prefer a
GUI. I use a Mandriva Linux distribution and it's all right.
Suddendly the menu bar (not the toolbar with icons, the menu bar with texts:
File, Edit, and so on) disappeared. I tried several options of the "set
guioptions" command, but to no success. I also deleted the .vimrc file, but
again no change. Then, installed vim-X11 again, but nothing happened.
May I ask your kind help?
Thank you!
guido, from Italy
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Guido Milanese
http://www.arsantiqua.org
Hypothesis 1: You are actually telling Vim not to display a menu.
How to check: In this case, ":verbose set guioptions?" (without the quotes)
will either not include the m flag, or it will include the M flag. It will
also tell you where that option whas last changed.
Solution: Make sure (in your vimrc) that 'guioptions' includes m but not M
Hypothesis 2: Your Vim version is unable to display menus.
How to check: ":echo has('menu')" (without the double quotes) answers 0 (zero).
Solution: Avail yourself of a different Vim executable, or compile it yourself.
Hypothesis 2a: You have installed a Vim version which is powerful enough, but
you are not using it.
How to check: (1) Same as hypothesis 2 above. (2) In the shell (e.g. in bash):
which -a gvim
ls -l `which gvim`
should help you find out what to do: the first "gvim" listed by the first
command above is the one which is invoked (you _are_ calling it by the name
"gvim" aren't you?); the second command will give you more info about it,
especially in the case of a soft link. The solution will depend on what you
find out.
Best regards,
Tony.
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