How to hide the menu/tool bar of gvim?

Question

I don\'t have use for the menu and tools bars in gvim on Windows; Can I hide them?

This will give more space to the text area.

Answer 1

I have

set guioptions=

in my .vimrc. But too often I wanted to use the menu momentarily with :set go+=m and :set go-=m.

From Hide toolbar or menus to see more text - Vim Tips Wiki, I use their

let mapleader=","
nnoremap m :if &go=~#'m'set go-=melseset go+=mendif

to toggle menu on and off with ,m. (Well, they actually have ctrl-F1 as the key-binding.)

For instance, when I need to remember the way to paste from OS' clipboard, I can find it in the menu very quickly. Once found, I'll still type it manually with "+gP to build muscle memory, but still I use it so seldom that I forget it too quickly.