Re: key binding of `M-&' shows up in menu as (M-)

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> emacs -Q
>
> Bind a command `foo' in a minibuffer completion map to `M-&'.
> Add `foo' to the Minibuf menu:
> (define-key map [menu-bar minibuf foo] '(menu-item "Foo It" foo))
>
> In the Minibuf menu, the item appears with the wrong binding:
>
>  Foo It  (M-)
>
> The `&' was removed - it should show "(M-&)".
> Perhaps the `&' needs to be automatically escaped?
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2007-05-22 on LENNART-69DE564
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/g/include'


I think this is specific to w32. Yes & needs to be escaped there.