Re: Customising menus... removing bars

[Alexander Baier <alexander.baier@mailbox.org>]

On 2014-06-07 21:32 James Freer wrote:
> I'd be grateful for a bit of guidance!
>
> I am just reading about customising menus in emacs. I want to remove
> the Buffers, Tools, Lisp-Interpreter, Help - to put it simply. I don't
> want all the contents of File, Edit, Options really.
>
> I was thinking of using EasyMenu due to it's name probably the best
> for me. But I'm unsure about the main menu - I assume I leave
> (menu-bar-mode 0) in the .emacs. I want to use both console and gui,
> but gui in the most basic form using key shortcuts for most
> commands. Console for editing email and when I am using cli but like
> the gui when I am looking through a load of files.

Just as a site note: You can always bind the toggling of the menu to a
key enabling you to only make it visible when you need it.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-<f10>") 'menu-bar-mode)
#+END_SRC

HTH,
-- 
Alexander Baier