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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