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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:43:08 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Emacs-Pretest-Bug <address@hidden>
> >
> > Drew Adams wrote:
> > > > I think this is specific to w32. Yes & needs to be escaped there.
> > > I hope you mean that Emacs or Emacs W32 should do the escaping. These
> > > binding indications are added automatically.
> > I am not sure I understand you, but & is the character you put before a 
> > character in the menu string on w32 to mark that character as an 
> > accelerator in menu. (It will be shown underlined then.)
> >
> > An example: "&Help" will show "Help" in the menu with "H" underlined.
> >
> > So fixing this is a w32 specific problem.
>
> I think I fixed this in CVS (trunk and branch); please try.
>
> Btw, there's a much easier way to demonstrate the bug: just create a
> buffer called, say, "foo&bar", then click "Buffers" from the menu bar.


Unfortunately I do not think that is the right change. This totally 
spoils the possibility to use accelerators for the menus on w32. I do 
not think the minor problem it solves justifies that.

I think the change should be reverted and added back later when it is 
clear how menu accelerators should be supported in Emacs.


Maybe this is the time to add a new field to _widget_value for this? The 
reasonable value is in my opinion the position for the accelerator 
within *name.

Then of course something with a name like :accpos could be added for use 
with (menu-item ...) when definining menus.