Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Well, why don't we contribute some experience to this excessively
> theoretical discussion.
>
> Specifically, it works in practice, since 1997, with no complaints I
> can recall.  The logic for use of "%_" is that it looks like a printf
> format operator, and does what it looks like: underlines the following
> character in the string.  Because of the ubiquity of printf format
> strings, programmers are used to treating strings containing "%"
> specially.  It is very easy to see the accelerators in menu code that
> uses them.  Besides the "%_" sequence, the "%%" sequence is treated
> specially; it resolves to a single "%".

It looks unnecessarily complicated to me to use two characters instead 
of one. I think Just "_" would be fine, but perhaps there are reason to 
be compatible to Xemacs.

I think nearly all is said and what remain is a decision.