Re: Key bindings proposal

[Jan Djärv]

Davis Herring skrev 2010-08-30 23.39:
> > But then there needs to be an unambigous way to specify an underscore
> > itself as an accelerator char.  Perhaps `___' (3 or them) could (be
> > made to) do that.
>
> "___" (with any following character) is already a literal underscore and
> an accelerator-prefix, so that doesn't work.  You'd have to have "__U" be
> a literal underscore and "__A" be an accelerator underscore (leaving all
> other "__?" patterns undefined for future expansion).

Given that Gtk+ has had this limitation for years (_ can not be an 
accelerator) and nobody complained, I don't think it is anything but a 
theoretical problem.  Anybody got a concrete example of an Emacs menu that 
could have _ as accelerator?

        Jan D.