From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Accelerator keys for menus Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: <42F6A6DE.40908@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123460916 28333 80.91.229.2 (8 Aug 2005 00:28:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 00:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 08 02:28:33 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1vVC-0001zT-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:28:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1vYB-0005AE-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1vXZ-0004xR-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1vXX-0004wF-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1vXW-0004v4-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E1vha-0000le-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.202.75) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B937170070EEE9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:27:11 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Emacs Devel X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41675 Are accelerator keys for menus available on GNU/Linux? On w32 if you put a single & before a letter in the menu text the next letter will be underlined and it works as an accelerator. Then you only have to type that letter to choose that alternative once the menu is active. It is quite useful if you are a keyboard user and wants to acces the menus. I believe that it is also recommended in 508 for accessibility (but I am not quite sure). Nearly all w32 programs use this. It is easy to implement of course. Is there anything like this on GNU/Linux that can be used for the menus?