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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:51:19+00:00

I’ve managed to get gvim pretty close to console vim in feel, no scrollbars,

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I’ve managed to get gvim pretty close to console vim in feel, no scrollbars, no toolbars etc. However, whenever it needs to prompt me, rather than doing it below the status line it likes to open up a gui dialog. This dialog is annoying, it often appears on the wrong monitor, sometimes i miss it, and its extra keypresses/clicks to dismiss it.

Apparently I can disable simple choice dialogs using the ‘c’ flag for guioptions, but it doesnt seem to work for me. Perhaps my test dialogs are not considered ‘simple’.

set guioptions+=lrbmTLce
set guioptions-=lrbmTLce

I’m testing against the dialog that can come up about swap files (read only, recover, edit anyway etc) and the dialog about the file changing outside of the vim instance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Peter Rincker was in fact correct, however I found I was having some issues with whether or not things were being set in the guioptions set. The below config works to make GVim behave exactly as console vim, including disabling dialogs, console tabs, no menu’s or scrollbars etc. I’m sure theres a more concise option so I’m putting this here as an answer and hoping someone comes back with the ‘correct’ method.

    set guioptions+=lrbmTLce
set guioptions-=lrbmTLce
set guioptions+=c
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