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13Nov/077

GVim irritation

After some messing around, I thought I'd share a fix I've found for a problem I've been having with gvim on my home Linux machine.

Basically, the issue was that gvim would be missing the menu bar. My guioptions had "m" (display menubar) enabled, and $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim was being sourced. No matter what I tried, the menu bar stayed hidden - it had vanished, and I couldn't tell why. After some searching with various combinations of "gvim menu vanished" and similar, I finally ran across the solution...

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