Re: Disable menu bar mode

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:10:46 AM UTC+5:30, B. T. Raven wrote:
> On 12/13/2017 7:55 PM, Rusi wrote:
> > Doc for menu-bar-mode says (among other things):
> > 
> > | If called from Lisp, enable Menu Bar mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
> > 
> > That this seems backwards is one thing
> > 
> > The other is that neither of these seem to work (ie turn off menu-bar)
> > 
> > (menu-bar-mode t)
> > (menu-bar-mode nil)
> > 
> > This does:
> > 
> > (menu-bar-mode 0)
> > 
> > Can someone confirm?
> > 
> > 
> > Emacs version 25.1.1
> > 
> 
> On 25.3 it seems to be working as advertised.
> 
> "
> (menu-bar-mode &optional ARG)
> 
> Toggle display of a menu bar on each frame (Menu Bar mode).
> With a prefix argument ARG, enable Menu Bar mode if ARG is
> positive, and disable it otherwise.  If called from Lisp, enable
> Menu Bar mode if ARG is omitted or nil.
> "
> 
> 
> You can turn it off with menubar > options > show/hide and then on by 
> evaluating (menu-bar-mode [nil])
> or
> M-x menu-bar-mode
> 
> (menu-bar-mode 0) evaluated turns it off because 0 is not positive.
> 
> Ed

My init has
(scroll-bar-mode 0)
(tool-bar-mode 0)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq initial-scratch-message nil)
;(fringe-mode 1)
;(menu-bar-mode 0)

Has been so for years…

[The menu-bar-mode was probably commented out after I started using org mode]

IOW the complaint is with the confusing and incomplete documentation:
«nil = true (turn on)?? So what is false then?»