Re: Key bindings proposal

[Jason Rumney]

 On 27/8/2010 7:22 AM, Juri Linkov wrote:
> IIUC, Windows defines menu accelerators by prepending "~" in front of
> the accelerator character in the menu label, Gtk - by prepending "_".
> These two are incompatible with each other.
>
> A common Emacs way would be to define a new underlined face and put it
> on the accelerator character.  Then menu accelerators will appear
> underlined automatically in tmm (but not in Gtk and Windows).
>
> Or more consistent with Emacs menu definitions would be
> to use a menu property like `:key-sequence' and `:keys',
> e.g. `key-accel':

IIRC, last time we discussed this, we decided that the latter approach 
would be best.  We also considered adopting the GTK approach and 
replacing _ with ~ on windows (and whatever is appropriate on Mac), but 
that leaves lucid and text menus needing to remove the character all the 
time.