Someone, sometime ago wanted always visible menu bar. This is attempt to

handle it. I have no idea where to make initialisation call to
activate_bfu_technology.

src/bfu/menu.c

@@ -868,10 +868,16 @@ void
 do_mainmenu(struct terminal *term, struct menu_item *items,
 	    void *data, int sel)
 {
-	struct menu *menu = mem_calloc(1, sizeof(*menu));
+	int init = 0;
+	struct menu *menu;
 
-	if (!menu) return;
+	if (!term->main_menu) {
+		term->main_menu = mem_calloc(1, sizeof(*menu));
+		if (!term->main_menu) return;
+		init = 1;
+	}
 
+	menu = term->main_menu;
 	menu->selected = (sel == -1 ? 0 : sel);
 	menu->items = items;
 	menu->data = data;
@@ -882,7 +888,20 @@ do_mainmenu(struct terminal *term, struct menu_item *items,
 	clear_hotkeys_cache(menu);
 #endif
 	init_hotkeys(term, menu);
-	add_window(term, mainmenu_handler, menu);
+	if (init) {
+		menu->selected = -1;
+		add_window(term, mainmenu_handler, menu);
+	} else {
+		struct window *win;
+
+		foreach (win, term->windows) {
+			if (win->data == menu) {
+				del_from_list(win);
+				add_at_pos((struct window *) &term->windows, win);
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (sel != -1) {
 		select_menu(term, menu);
@@ -1107,8 +1126,10 @@ mainmenu_kbd_handler(struct menu *menu, struct term_event *ev)
 		}
 
 	case ACT_MENU_CANCEL:
-		delete_window_ev(win, action_id != ACT_MENU_CANCEL ? ev : NULL);
+		menu->selected = -1;
-		return;
+		del_from_list(win);
+		add_to_list_end(win->term->windows, win);
+		break;
 	}
 
 	/* Redraw the menu */

src/config/options.inc

@@ -1177,6 +1177,10 @@ static struct option_info config_options_info[] = {
 		N_("Language of user interface. 'System' means that the language will\n"
 		"be extracted from the environment dynamically.")),
 
+	INIT_OPT_BOOL("ui", N_("Display menu bar always"),
+		"show_menu_bar_always", 0, 0,
+		N_("Always show menu bar on the screen.")),
+
 	INIT_OPT_BOOL("ui", N_("Display status bar"),
 		"show_status_bar", 0, 1,
 		N_("Show status bar on the screen.")),

src/dialogs/status.c

@@ -379,11 +379,14 @@ display_title_bar(struct session *ses, struct terminal *term)
 	unsigned char buf[40];
 	int buflen = 0;
 	int height;
-	struct box box;
 
 	/* Clear the old title */
-	set_box(&box, 0, 0, term->width, 1);
+	if (!get_opt_bool("ui.show_menu_bar_always")) {
-	draw_box(term, &box, ' ', 0, get_bfu_color(term, "title.title-bar"));
+		struct box box;
+
+		set_box(&box, 0, 0, term->width, 1);
+		draw_box(term, &box, ' ', 0, get_bfu_color(term, "title.title-bar"));
+	}
 
 	doc_view = current_frame(ses);
 	if (!doc_view || !doc_view->document) return;

src/terminal/terminal.h

@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ struct terminal {
 	/* This is the screen. See terminal/screen.h */
 	struct terminal_screen *screen;
 
+	/* This is for displaying main menu */
+	struct menu *main_menu;
 	/* These are pipes for communication with the ELinks instance owning
 	 * this terminal. */
 	int fdin, fdout;

src/viewer/action.c

@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ do_action(struct session *ses, enum main_action action_id, int verbose)
 	struct document_view *doc_view = current_frame(ses);
 	struct link *link = NULL;
 
+	/* FIXME: Move it to appropriate place */
+	if (!term->main_menu) activate_bfu_technology(ses, -1);
+
 	if (action_id == -1) goto unknown_action;
 
 	if (doc_view && doc_view->vs) {