How can I stop gvim opening dialogs?

Question

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.

Answer 1

I use the following in my .gvimrc

set guioptions=c

Answer 2

Peter Rincker was in fact correct, however I found I was having some issues with whether or not things were being set in the guioptions set. The below config works to make GVim behave exactly as console vim, including disabling dialogs, console tabs, no menu's or scrollbars etc. I'm sure theres a more concise option so I'm putting this here as an answer and hoping someone comes back with the 'correct' method.

set guioptions+=lrbmTLce
set guioptions-=lrbmTLce
set guioptions+=c

Answer 3

A small tip: I sometimes have a logfile open but I already have the portion I want from it so I don't want it to reload but I also don't want to close it in case I need something more, plus if I reload or close and reopen again the same data could be hard to find or it could have been rolled out. The popups are just a nuisance.

In this case a simple solution is to :file anything, the buffer is then renamed and so GVim won't look for changes in the original file anymore.