How do I disable access keys in gVim

Question

I'm looking for a way to disable the access keys in gVim.

For example, when I press alt+f, the "File" menu pops up.

This is behavior that I want to remove, so I can use these keybinds for other things.

Is there a way to remove it?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you do not want to make use of the key handlers for the menu, you can configure this using the 'winaltkeys'. E.g.

:set winaltkeys=no

Then you should be able to use the alt key combinations for other things. However, note that alt key mappings may not always work reliably on a terminal.

Another alternative is to simply not source $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim so that no menu will be present at all (and therefore no menu keymappings will be there. This can be achieved by adding the M flag to the 'guioptions' setting (:set guioptions+=M, however this needs to be done early in your .vimrc config file).

This is what I am personally using, since I have no real use for a classical menubar for vim and it gains me additional space.