Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

GUI Options and Command Synopsis

Table 13-3 summarizes the commands and options specially associated with gvim. These are added to Vim when it is compiled with GUI support, and they take effect when it is invoked as gvim or vim -g.

Table 13-3. gvim-specific options

Command or option	Type	Description
guicursor	Option	Settings for cursor shape and blinking
guifont	Option	Names of single-byte fonts to be used
guifontset	Option	Names of multi-byte fonts to be used
guifontwide	Option	List of font names for double-wide characters
guiheadroom	Option	Number of pixels to leave for window decorations
guioptions	Option	Which components and options are used
guipty	Option	Use a pseudo-tty for “:!” commands
guitablabel	Option	Custom label for a tab page
guitabtooltip	Option	Custom tooltip for a tab page
toolbar	Option	Items to show in the toolbar
-g	Option	Start the GUI (which also allows the other options)
-U gvimrc	Option	Use gvim startup file, named gvimrc or something similar, when starting the GUI
:gui	Command	Start the GUI (on Unix-like systems only)
:gui filename...	Command	Start the GUI and edit the specified files
:menu	Command	List all menus
:menu menupath	Command	List menus starting with menupath
:menu menupath action	Command	Add menu menupath, to perform action action
:menu n menupath action	Command	Add menu menupath with positional priority of n
:menu ToolBar.toolbarname action	Command	Add toolbar item toolbarname to perform action action
:tmenu menupath text	Command	Create tooltip for menu item menupath with text of text
:unmenu ...