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

The gVim shipping with Fedora (not sure if other distributions are effected) has a bug that doesn't allow you to remove the menu with set go-=m; for some reason, the "m" option isn't in the "go" string until you set it. So the .vimrc command sequence that removes the menu bar on startup in Fedora (tested in 26) is:

set go=agitm
set go-=m

I couln't find a solution anywhere else, so hopefully that helps someone else using gVim on Fedora.