Emacs Starter Kit on the Mac

Question

I just installed Emacs on my mac from here: http://emacsformacosx.com/ and that got rid of all the menus. How do I get those menus back?

Answer 1

If you want to enable or disable the menu in emacs, you can use

M-x menu-bar-mode

and if you want the same with the toolbar you can use

M-x tool-bar-mode

The menu should be enabled "by default" unless stated otherwise in your .emacs file which you can find in emacs using C-x C-f ~/.emacs.

Answer 2

Look for menu-bar-mode in your ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.

You should find...

(menu-bar-mode -1) 

If so, remove it. If you don't find it... add the following line.

(menu-bar-mode 1) 

and save the file.